Max Fels @mfels.bsky.social from our lab discovers giant DNA viruses that infect amoeba encode eIF4E and the entire suite of 4F complex proteins to control mRNA translation, including beautiful crystal structures of viral 4E bound to modified mRNA 5' caps: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Congratulations to @karishmabisht.bsky.social with her paper on the effect of fever on influenza replication and innate immune activation! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The IFIT2–IFIT3 antiviral complex targets short 5’ untranslated regions on viral mRNAs for translation inhibition By Dustin Glasner, Matthew Daugherty & colleagues. #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An awesome preprint on the novel, unsung SARS-CoV-2 N* protein came out recently, authored by @corcoranlab.bsky.social and @rorymulloy.bsky.social. I’ve previously written on N*’s demise in XEC, the top variant for several months, but… threadreaderapp.com/thread/18373... 1/34

Our manuscript on dsRNA sensor OAS2 from the lab of @oliveiramann.bsky.social is now out in @cp-molcell.bsky.social ! Thanks again to the whole team for their effort putting this story together!

Very happy that this story is now published in @plosbiology.org. It includes lots of additional data, (creation of the G215S mutant) & demonstrates the increased growth/ oligomerization of N is specific to the cysteine at 215. Thanks to the coauthors, reviewers and editors who helped improve it!

Previously, KO and overexpression showed host RNA 5’ triphosphatase DUSP11 can reduce RIG-I sensitivity. Here, we show poxviruses code for viral DUSP11 that can regulate host RNP III transcripts and RIG-I, providing evolutionary support DUSP11 can be pro-viral. journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Check out this fun preview of my postdoctoral work! It highlights our findings plus lots of intriguing questions that I’m super excited to tackle in the coming years. (And the model is beautiful! Thank you! 🧑‍🎨 )

After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2? https://go.nature.com/4iDKrtw

Our newest work reveals that SARS-CoV-2 evolved to produce a truncated version of its N protein to antagonize antiviral responses. This 'mini' N, called N*M210, sequesters dsRNA, blocks interferon activation, defeats RNaseL & disassembles stress granules and p-bodies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...