Virology Graduate Training Program at the University of Maryland

JOURNAL CLUB 

Journal Club Spring 2005

Replication and Translation of RNA Viruses

Meeting time:  3:00 pm- 4:50 pm

Meeting place:  Microbiology Building Rm  2119 

Students who would like credit should sign up for 2 credits  

Note the first meeting day is the second Friday in the semester 

The last date  will be an exercise in how to review papers for journals.  You will have a chance to compare your review with reviews from professionals

Date

Presenter

Paper

 

 

9/1                     Sign up day

Review papers:    

Ahlquist, P.  2006.  Parallels among positive-strand RNA viruses, reverse-transcribing viruses and double-stranded RNA viruses.  Nature Rev. 4, 371-382.

Pisarev, A. V., Shirokikh, N. E., and Hellen, C. U. T.  2005.  Translation initiation by factor-independent binding of eukaryotic ribosomes to internal ribosomal entry sites.  C. R. Biologies 328, 589-605.
Sarnow, P., Cevallos, R. C., and Jan, E.  2005.  Takeover of host ribosomes by divergent IRES elements.  Biochem. Soc. Trans. 33, 1479-1482.
Dreher, T. W., and Miller, W. A.  2006.  Translational control in positive strand RNA plant viruses.  Virology 344, 185-197.
Dreher, T. W. 1999. Functions of the 3'-untranslated regions of positive strand RNA viral genomes. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 37:151-174.
van Dijk, A.A., Makeyev, E.V., Bamford, D.H. 2004. Initiation of viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerization.  J. Gen. Virol. 85, 1077-1093.

9/ 8

Vera Stupina

Mizumoto et al.2006.  Cap-Independent Translation Mechanism of Red Clover Necrotic
Mosaic Virus RNA2 Differs from That of RNA1 and Is Linked to RNA Replication.Journal of Virology, 3781–3791

9/15

A. Petrov

Siridechadilok B, Fraser CS, Hall RJ, Doudna JA, Nogales E.  2005.  Structural roles for human translation factor eIF3 in initiation of protein synthesis.  Science 2; 310(5753):1513-5.

9/22

Rong Guo

Fabian and White.  2006.  Analysis of a 3' translational enhancer in a tombusvirus:model for RNA-RNA interactions at mRNA termini.  RNA, in press

9/29

John Russ Koh et al. 2006 Virus Research

10/6

Rasa Rakauskaite Alissa M. Lancaster, Eric Jan, Peter Sarnow.  2006.  Initiation factor-independent translation mediated by the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site.RNA 12: 894-902.

Rasa's Journal club slides

 

10/13

                                  No Meeting

10/20

Jess Necriemer Montero et al.  Rotavirus Non-structural protein NSP3 is not required for viral protein synthesis.  J. Virol. 80, 9031   2006

10/27

Danielle Hickman Dalton et al.  2006.  Temperature sensitive influenza A virus genome replication results from low thermal stability of polymerase-cRNA complexes.  Virology J. 3:58

11/3

Megan Lai Anderson and Lever.  2006.  HIV type 1 gag polyprotein modulates its own translation.  J. Virol. 80, 10478

11/10

John McCormack

Filomati et al., 2006.  A %' end RNA element promotes Dengue virus RNA synthesis from a circular template.  Genes and Dev. 20, 2238.

 

11/17

Michael Rhodin

  Dobrikova et al., 2006.  J. Virol.

 

   

  Paper to be reviewed

 

12/8                                                           Paper review