Description

Vincent, Dickson, Rich, and Alan review cell proteins essential for entry of hepatitis C, Ebola, and measles viruses.

Links for this episode:

• Niemann-Pick C1 is entry factor for HCV (Nature Med)
• Ebola virus entry requires Niemann-Pick C1 (Nature one, two)
• Nectin-4 is measles virus epithelial receptor (Nature, PLoS Pathogens)
• An exit strategy for measles virus (Science)
• On this day in history
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 166