tenOever LaboratoryVirology · Host defense · RNA biology
Technologies

Replication-incompetent influenza vector

viral engineering

Recorded terms: replication-incompetent virus-like vectors

2014 · Journal of Virology · lab-led

A Versatile RNA Vector for Delivery of Coding and Noncoding RNAs

Replication-incompetent influenza-based vectors carrying no DNA intermediate deliver coding messages and functional small RNAs together to primary human and mouse cells and to mouse lung, with output and cytotoxicity tuned by microRNA target sites in the nucleoprotein segment.

2013 · Cell Reports · lab-led

Influenza A Virus Utilizes Suboptimal Splicing to Coordinate the Timing of Infection

The inefficient 5 prime splice site of influenza A virus segment 8 functions as a timing device, causing the nuclear export protein to accumulate slowly as a minor product of abundant NS1 transcription, with both raising and lowering that rate attenuating the virus through mistimed ribonucleoprotein export.