Our News and Views article discussing @mfels.bsky.social et al's work on how a giant virus manipulates its host's translation during infection is out today in Nature Microbiology. PhD student Danae Stephens is a co-author.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A giant mimivirus encodes its own cap-binding translation initiation complex, revealing an unexpected level of viral autonomy in rewiring host translation towards viral protein production.
