tenOever LaboratoryVirology · Host defense · RNA biology
Technologies

Radiolabelling and translation measurement

proteomics and biochemistry

Recorded terms: in vivo radiolabeling; puromycin incorporation translation assay; radiolabeled amino acid tracing

2023 · Molecular Cell · collaborative

Stress granules are shock absorbers that prevent excessive innate immune responses to dsRNA

Stress granules restrain rather than amplify double-stranded RNA sensing, and cells lacking the granule nucleators G3BP1 and G3BP2, UBAP2L or PKR respond to double-stranded RNA with excessive RIG-I-like receptor, PKR and OAS activation and MAVS-dependent apoptosis.

2020 · Journal of Virology · collaborative

Rapid Dissemination and Monopolization of Viral Populations in Mice Revealed Using a Panel of Barcoded Viruses

A library of 135 barcoded coxsackievirus B3 clones shows that orally inoculated virus reaches systemic tissues within 20 minutes and replicates as a diverse population, after which fewer than three variants come to dominate every tissue in the animal without any detectable adaptive mutation.

2014 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · lab-led

Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase-mediated Licensing of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3/7 Reinforces the Cell Response to Virus

Sustained IRF7 activity induces the kinase MAP3K8, which phosphorylates the proline-rich hinge of IRF3 and redirects it from homodimers into IRF3 and IRF7 heterodimers, broadening the antiviral transcriptome and scaling the cellular response to the persistence of the viral threat.