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virus inducing host gene shutoff May 2012
A new section describes the shutoff of host proteins induced by viruses, with subsection for the shutoff of cellular transcription, host mRNA suppression and host translation shutoff. More often than not viruses inducing a host gene expression shutoff are able to express their own proteins through specific mecanisms. For example many viruses inducing a shutoff of host translation have their mRNA translated through an IRES.

Fundamentals of Molecular Virology, 2nd edition January 2012

The second edition of Fundamentals of Molecular Virology written by Nicholas H. Acheson is now available. It includes five new chapters and upgraded full-color graphics. We want to thank Pr. Acheson for having worked with us on few of these graphics, which helped us to improve virion representation in ViralZone.


New NCBI Genome database released January 2012
The entrez genome database hosted in NCBI has been redesigned with new data model, views and formats in November 2011. See the official news. Here is an example of the new view of the genome of human herpesvirus-1 RefSeq. The changes in genome adress resulted in several broken or misdirected links in ViralZone reference strains, This is fixed now.


MAVS Antiviral signaling September 2011
“MAVS forms functional prion-like aggregates to activate and propagate antiviral innate immune response.”, Cell, August 2011

TWIV

TWIV:This Week in Virology is a weekly podcast animated by professors Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier from the Columbia University, USA.


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Publication: ViralZone: a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity. Hulo C, de Castro E, Masson P, Bougueleret L, Bairoch A, Xenarios I, Le Mercier P. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D576-82.

ViralZone Current statistics
 May, 2012
426 Virus description pages:
  • 83 Families
  • 334 Genera
  • 9 individual Species

100 Virus molecular biology pages

Linking to:

  • 364 reference strains
  • 16,066 manually reviewed proteins
  • 1,380,399 unreviewed viral proteins

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