This Week in Virology TWiV 409: A Nef is enough
Guest: Jeremy Luban
Jeremy joins the TWiVeroids to tell the amazing story of how the function of the HIV-1 protein called Nef was discovered and found to promote infection by excluding the host protein SERINC from virus particles.
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Links for this episode- No recovery in PACE trial (virology blog)
- The real PACE data (virology blog)
- Contagious Thinking
- Florida DOH daily Zika update
- Congress does not fail on Zika (NPR)
- Nef history (Luban lab)
- Nef excludes SERINC from virions (Nature)
- SERINC counters Nef (Nature)
- ASM Grant Writing Online Course
- Letters read on TWiV 409
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