Reposted by Jasmine G
Ribosome remodeling drives translation adaptation during viral infection and cellular stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684008v1
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Ribosome remodeling drives translation adaptation during viral infection and cellular stress https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684008v1
Reposted by Jasmine G
Are viruses capable of regulating protein synthesis in the nuanced way of cellular organisms? Kinda! I’m excited to share some of my postdoc work that leveraged giant DNA viruses to address this question.
Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life
In contrast to living organisms, viruses were long thought to lack protein synthesis machinery and instead depend on host factors to translate viral transcripts. Here, we discover that giant DNA virus...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Are viruses capable of regulating protein synthesis in the nuanced way of cellular organisms? Kinda! I’m excited to share some of my postdoc work that leveraged giant DNA viruses to address this question.