TWiV 222: Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a GAS GAS GAS
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team discusses the amazing finding that cyclic GMP-AMP synthase is a cytosolic innate immune DNA sensor.
Links for this episode:- Zhijian J. Chen (Wikipedia)
- Sensing the dark side of DNA (Science)
- cGAMP is an endogenous second messenger (Science)
- cGAMP synthase is a DNA sensor (Science)
- Pore-forming toxin (Wikipedia)
- Letters read on TWiV 222
Kathy - Graphene batteriesAlan - How do we get cures? (YouTube)Rich - Explosive breach of Condit Dam (Vimeo)Vincent - 10 things you can do to support open access (Tree of Life)
Listener Pick of the WeekMark - The real story of StuxnetJohn - D-connector virus
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