1 00:00:04,371 --> 00:00:04,938 GOOD MORNING. 2 00:00:04,938 --> 00:00:06,273 IT'S FANTASTIC TO SEE SO MANY 3 00:00:06,273 --> 00:00:06,807 PEOPLE IN PERSON. 4 00:00:06,807 --> 00:00:10,010 I DON'T THINK THIS ROOM HAS BEEN 5 00:00:10,010 --> 00:00:12,779 THIS FULL IN PROBABLY SINCE 6 00:00:12,779 --> 00:00:13,447 PRE-COVID. 7 00:00:13,447 --> 00:00:15,816 SO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW ME 8 00:00:15,816 --> 00:00:19,319 OR MIGHT NOT RECOGNIZE ME IN THE 9 00:00:19,319 --> 00:00:21,855 FANCY CLOTHES, I'M ERIC FREED, 10 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:24,024 DIRECTOR OF THE DYNAMICS AND 11 00:00:24,024 --> 00:00:24,691 REPLICATION PROGRAM, ON BEHALF 12 00:00:24,691 --> 00:00:26,927 OF THE STAFF AND FACULTY OF THE 13 00:00:26,927 --> 00:00:32,633 CRP I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO 14 00:00:32,633 --> 00:00:34,768 THE CELEBRATION OF ALAN REIN'S 15 00:00:34,768 --> 00:00:35,102 CAREER. 16 00:00:35,102 --> 00:00:40,007 HIGHLIGHTS TO GET US STARTED, 17 00:00:40,007 --> 00:00:43,543 ALAN GRADUATED FROM REID COLLEGE 18 00:00:43,543 --> 00:00:47,014 IN 1961, Ph.D. RESEARCH WITH 19 00:00:47,014 --> 00:00:48,549 HARRY RUBIN AT UC-BERKELEY 20 00:00:48,549 --> 00:00:49,416 BEFORE DOING POSTDOCTORAL 21 00:00:49,416 --> 00:00:55,422 RESEARCH AT M.I.T., WITH SHELDON 22 00:00:55,422 --> 00:00:55,923 PENMAN. 23 00:00:55,923 --> 00:01:03,664 IN THE 70s HE WORKED AT LITTON 24 00:01:03,664 --> 00:01:04,965 BIOMEDICS THAT DID 25 00:01:04,965 --> 00:01:07,401 GOVERNMENT-FUNDED CONTRACT 26 00:01:07,401 --> 00:01:07,834 RESEARCH. 27 00:01:07,834 --> 00:01:14,174 LATE 70s WORKED IN TUMOR VIRUS 28 00:01:14,174 --> 00:01:17,444 GENETICS AT NCI BETHESDA. 29 00:01:17,444 --> 00:01:19,980 IN 1979, ALAN MOVED TO FREDERICK 30 00:01:19,980 --> 00:01:24,785 TO SERVE AS A SENIOR RESEARCH 31 00:01:24,785 --> 00:01:28,088 SCIENTIST, MICROBIOLOGY OF 32 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:29,723 RETROVIRUS SECTION, IN THE 33 00:01:29,723 --> 00:01:32,960 CANCER RESEARCH FACILITY. 34 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:34,761 BETWEEN 1984 AND 1999 ALAN WAS 35 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:40,667 HEAD OF THE RETROVIRAL GENETICS 36 00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:44,504 SECTION AT ABL IN FREDERICK. 37 00:01:44,504 --> 00:01:46,807 AND SINCE 1999, ALAN HAS BEEN 38 00:01:46,807 --> 00:01:49,443 HEAD OF THE RETROVIRUS ASSEMBLY 39 00:01:49,443 --> 00:01:51,745 SECTION IN THE HIV DRP. 40 00:01:51,745 --> 00:01:53,513 HE HAS MANY HONORS AND 41 00:01:53,513 --> 00:01:55,515 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE YEARS, 42 00:01:55,515 --> 00:02:00,187 SERVED ON EDITORIAL BOARDS OF 43 00:02:00,187 --> 00:02:06,093 SEVERAL JOURNALS INCLUDING JBC, 44 00:02:06,093 --> 00:02:09,997 VIROLOGY, IN 2012 RECEIVED THE 45 00:02:09,997 --> 00:02:11,665 NIH DIRECTOR'S AWARD, 2014 46 00:02:11,665 --> 00:02:15,335 ELECTED FELLOW AMERICAN ACADEMY 47 00:02:15,335 --> 00:02:16,203 OF MICROBIOLOGY. 48 00:02:16,203 --> 00:02:18,705 I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS 49 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:19,239 ABOUT HIS GROUNDBREAKING 50 00:02:19,239 --> 00:02:21,908 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF 51 00:02:21,908 --> 00:02:22,442 RETROVIROLOGY. 52 00:02:22,442 --> 00:02:29,316 I COULD SPEND HALF THE DAY DOING 53 00:02:29,316 --> 00:02:30,651 THIS. 54 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:38,825 CONDENSING THINGS DOWN -- HELLO? 55 00:02:38,825 --> 00:02:40,027 PLEASE MUTE YOURSELF. 56 00:02:40,027 --> 00:02:42,229 >> WAS THAT YOU TALKING? 57 00:02:42,229 --> 00:02:44,231 >> NO, THE CHAIR OF THE MEETING. 58 00:02:44,231 --> 00:02:47,167 >> PLEASE MUTE YOURSELF. 59 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:50,771 EARLY TO MID-1970s, ALAN DID 60 00:02:50,771 --> 00:02:54,374 GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH ON Fv1 61 00:02:54,374 --> 00:02:59,880 REVICES OF MLV INFECTION, 62 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:05,752 JONATHAN STOYE WILL SAY MORE 63 00:03:05,752 --> 00:03:06,086 LATER. 64 00:03:06,086 --> 00:03:07,287 EARLY INDICATIONS MEMBRANE 65 00:03:07,287 --> 00:03:10,157 BINDING OF GAG IS ESSENTIAL FOR 66 00:03:10,157 --> 00:03:11,024 VIRUS ASSEMBLY SUBSEQUENTLY 67 00:03:11,024 --> 00:03:18,365 SHOWN FOR HIV AND MANY OTHER 68 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:18,799 RETROVIRUSES. 69 00:03:18,799 --> 00:03:20,767 IN 1988, ALAN SHOWED POINT 70 00:03:20,767 --> 00:03:22,502 MUTANTS FAILED TO PACKAGE VIRAL 71 00:03:22,502 --> 00:03:24,805 RNA, PROVIDING EVIDENCE FOR 72 00:03:24,805 --> 00:03:28,642 SPECIFIC RNA RECOGNITION BY THE 73 00:03:28,642 --> 00:03:32,913 ZINC FINGER-LIKE DOMAIN, NC ZINC 74 00:03:32,913 --> 00:03:35,015 FINGER DOMAIN WE'RE FAMILIAR 75 00:03:35,015 --> 00:03:35,582 WITH. 76 00:03:35,582 --> 00:03:38,985 1994 SHOWED THE MLB 77 00:03:38,985 --> 00:03:40,153 TRANSMEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEIN IS 78 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:41,955 CLEAVED TO ACTIVATE FUSION 79 00:03:41,955 --> 00:03:44,024 ACTIVITY, THE FIRST INDICATION 80 00:03:44,024 --> 00:03:48,228 OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN 81 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:51,565 ACTIVATION AND VIRUS MATURATION. 82 00:03:51,565 --> 00:03:54,234 IN 2001, ALAN SHOWED RNA IS A 83 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:57,637 STRUCTURAL ELEMENT IN RETROVIRUS 84 00:03:57,637 --> 00:04:01,575 PARTICLES, IN 2001 SHOWED THE 85 00:04:01,575 --> 00:04:03,376 MODULATION OF HIV-LIKE PARTICLE 86 00:04:03,376 --> 00:04:05,545 ASSEMBLY IN IN VITRO PREDATED BY 87 00:04:05,545 --> 00:04:07,514 NEARLY TWO DECADES THE CURRENT 88 00:04:07,514 --> 00:04:11,218 APPRECIATION FOR THE ROLE OF IP6 89 00:04:11,218 --> 00:04:15,055 IN RETROVIRAL ASSEMBLY AND 90 00:04:15,055 --> 00:04:15,522 MATURATION. 91 00:04:15,522 --> 00:04:16,923 TOGETHER WITH NCI FREDERICK 92 00:04:16,923 --> 00:04:19,226 CONTRIBUTED TO SOLVING THE 93 00:04:19,226 --> 00:04:26,566 STRUCTURE OF THE HIV REN 94 00:04:26,566 --> 00:04:28,235 RESPONSE ELEMENT AND DISSECTED 95 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:29,736 SPECIFIC BINDING OF HIV-1 GAG TO 96 00:04:29,736 --> 00:04:32,706 PACKAGING SIGNAL IN VIRAL RNA, 97 00:04:32,706 --> 00:04:34,141 GAG BINDING SPECIFICALLY TO 98 00:04:34,141 --> 00:04:38,712 VIRAL RNA IS TRIGGER FOR VIRUS 99 00:04:38,712 --> 00:04:40,013 ASSEMBLY EXPLAINING SPECIFICITY 100 00:04:40,013 --> 00:04:42,749 OF RNA PACKAGING. 101 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:44,751 SO, IN ADDITION TO BEING 102 00:04:44,751 --> 00:04:48,221 ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTOR TO THE 103 00:04:48,221 --> 00:04:51,291 FIELD OF RETROVIROLOGY, ALAN WAS 104 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,493 THEN ATTENDING FOR MANY YEARS, 105 00:04:53,493 --> 00:04:56,196 MANY CONFERENCES IN THE FIELD, 106 00:04:56,196 --> 00:04:57,364 INCLUDING THE COLD SPRING HARBOR 107 00:04:57,364 --> 00:04:59,733 RETROVIRUS MEETING. 108 00:04:59,733 --> 00:05:02,602 HERE IS ALAN IN 1989. 109 00:05:02,602 --> 00:05:08,508 AND WITH JACKIE BENTLEY, HERE 110 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:13,547 WITH US TODAY, IN 1991. 111 00:05:13,547 --> 00:05:15,949 HERE IS ALAN IN 1998 WITH JOHN, 112 00:05:15,949 --> 00:05:18,451 IN THE FRONT ROW, JUST LIKE AT 113 00:05:18,451 --> 00:05:21,755 COLD SPRING HARBOR. 114 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:24,157 ALAN AND DELPHINE IN 1999. 115 00:05:24,157 --> 00:05:26,226 THEY ACTUALLY LOOK EXACTLY THE 116 00:05:26,226 --> 00:05:28,395 SAME NOW AS THEY DID THEN. 117 00:05:28,395 --> 00:05:33,466 IT'S REALLY REMARKABLE. 118 00:05:33,466 --> 00:05:35,235 IN 2001 WITH STEVE. 119 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:36,736 SO I'LL PROVIDE A FEW QUICK 120 00:05:36,736 --> 00:05:38,705 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAM WE 121 00:05:38,705 --> 00:05:41,675 HAVE A LINEUP OF DISTINGUISHED 122 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,611 SPEAKERS TODAY. 123 00:05:44,611 --> 00:05:46,279 BEGINNING WITH FRANCOIS 124 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:52,085 BARRE-SINOUSSI FROM INSTITUT 125 00:05:52,085 --> 00:05:54,087 PASTEUR, JONATHAN STOYE. 126 00:05:54,087 --> 00:06:01,394 AFTER THE BREAK DELPHINE MURIAUX 127 00:06:01,394 --> 00:06:05,899 AND MAURICIO COMAS-GARCIA, AND 128 00:06:05,899 --> 00:06:15,075 WE'LL HEAR ON TRANSCRIPTION 129 00:06:15,075 --> 00:06:17,811 START HETEROGENEITY; AND THE TWO 130 00:06:17,811 --> 00:06:18,912 FORMERS DIRECTORS, VIRTUAL 131 00:06:18,912 --> 00:06:23,617 PRESENTATION FROM PETER AND 132 00:06:23,617 --> 00:06:26,019 FINALLY ALAN REIN WILL PROVIDE 133 00:06:26,019 --> 00:06:27,887 CLOSING REMARKS. 134 00:06:27,887 --> 00:06:29,456 THERE WILL BE AN AFTER PARTY 135 00:06:29,456 --> 00:06:34,227 CELEBRATION AT THE END OF THE 136 00:06:34,227 --> 00:06:36,196 DAY AT STEINHARDT BREWERY, 137 00:06:36,196 --> 00:06:36,830 DOWNTOWN FREDERICK. 138 00:06:36,830 --> 00:06:38,598 FINALLY, ALAN, I CONGRATULATE 139 00:06:38,598 --> 00:06:39,799 YOU ON YOUR GROUNDBREAKING 140 00:06:39,799 --> 00:06:41,568 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD OF 141 00:06:41,568 --> 00:06:42,769 RETROVIROLOGY, AND WISH YOU THE 142 00:06:42,769 --> 00:06:45,939 BEST FOR A LONG AND HAPPY 143 00:06:45,939 --> 00:06:46,339 RETIREMENT. 144 00:06:46,339 --> 00:06:47,574 ALAN WILL CONVERT TO EMERITUS 145 00:06:47,574 --> 00:06:49,876 STATUS AT THE END OF THE YEAR SO 146 00:06:49,876 --> 00:06:54,147 WE HOPE YOU'LL STAY ENGAGED IN 147 00:06:54,147 --> 00:06:54,681 DRP ACTIVITIES. 148 00:06:54,681 --> 00:06:56,349 HOWEVER, WE HOPE HE WILL ALSO 149 00:06:56,349 --> 00:06:57,717 SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS AND 150 00:06:57,717 --> 00:06:59,519 FAMILY, OLD AND NEW HOBBIES AND 151 00:06:59,519 --> 00:06:59,786 INTERESTS. 152 00:06:59,786 --> 00:07:03,990 YOU KNOW HE'S AN AVID BIRD 153 00:07:03,990 --> 00:07:05,191 WATCHER, FOR EXAMPLE. 154 00:07:05,191 --> 00:07:07,060 SO WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY I WILL 155 00:07:07,060 --> 00:07:11,665 WELCOME ALAN TO THE PODIUM TO 156 00:07:11,665 --> 00:07:22,108 KICK OFF TODAY'S PROGRAM. 157 00:07:28,882 --> 00:07:29,249 >> THANK YOU, ERIC. 158 00:07:29,249 --> 00:07:34,254 THAT WAS MORE THAN I COULD WISH 159 00:07:34,254 --> 00:07:34,621 FOR. 160 00:07:34,621 --> 00:07:37,757 SO, I ASKED TO INTRODUCE EACH 161 00:07:37,757 --> 00:07:40,060 SPEAKER MYSELF, AND JUST SAY A 162 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:42,028 FEW WORDS, NOT ABOUT THE USUAL 163 00:07:42,028 --> 00:07:44,431 THEY HAVE SO MANY AWARDS, BLAH, 164 00:07:44,431 --> 00:07:46,132 BLAH, BLAH, BUT WHAT THEY ARE 165 00:07:46,132 --> 00:07:47,901 DOING HERE, WHAT IS THE 166 00:07:47,901 --> 00:07:50,370 CONNECTION SUCH THAT THEY ARE 167 00:07:50,370 --> 00:07:54,074 PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT. 168 00:07:54,074 --> 00:07:57,477 SO, FIRST SPEAKER REALLY NEEDS 169 00:07:57,477 --> 00:07:59,913 NO INTRODUCTION, FRANCOISSE IS 170 00:07:59,913 --> 00:08:03,083 THE PERSON WHO ISOLATED HIV, AND 171 00:08:03,083 --> 00:08:07,120 BEFORE SHE ISOLATED HIV, IN FACT 172 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,322 BEFORE HIV APPEARED, SHE STUDIED 173 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:12,625 MURINE VIRUSES IN THE LAB OF BOB 174 00:08:12,625 --> 00:08:16,129 BASSEN, IN BETHESDA, AS DID I. 175 00:08:16,129 --> 00:08:21,468 AND SO WE WORKED SIDE BY SIDE IN 176 00:08:21,468 --> 00:08:24,437 THE 19, UM, '70s, MID-'70s, 177 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:25,405 LATE 70s. 178 00:08:25,405 --> 00:08:26,940 WE'VE BEEN FRIENDS EVER SINCE. 179 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:30,710 AND SO IT'S A GREAT PLEASURE TO 180 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:34,714 SAY HELLO AGAIN TO MY OLD FRIEND 181 00:08:34,714 --> 00:08:38,985 FRANCOISE. 182 00:08:38,985 --> 00:08:42,789 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 183 00:08:42,789 --> 00:08:45,091 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 184 00:08:45,091 --> 00:08:50,930 TODAY WE GATHER TO HONOR OUR 185 00:08:50,930 --> 00:08:55,635 COLLEAGUE AND DEAR FRIEND ALAN, 186 00:08:55,635 --> 00:08:57,170 PROFESSIONAL LIFE FOR ADVANCES 187 00:08:57,170 --> 00:08:59,472 IN SCIENCE ON RETROVIRUSES. 188 00:08:59,472 --> 00:09:04,511 I'M FILLED WITH BOTH JOY AND 189 00:09:04,511 --> 00:09:06,813 NOSTALGIA, WITH GREAT MEMORIES 190 00:09:06,813 --> 00:09:09,849 COMING BACK IN MY MIND. 191 00:09:09,849 --> 00:09:16,623 AS IT WAS SAID BY ERIC, Ph.D. 192 00:09:16,623 --> 00:09:23,663 IN BERKELEY, M.I.T., ALAN IS 193 00:09:23,663 --> 00:09:26,032 ENJOYING THE NATIONAL CANCER 194 00:09:26,032 --> 00:09:28,134 INSTITUTE IN THE '70s, FIRST 195 00:09:28,134 --> 00:09:34,240 IN BETHESDA, AND THEN IN 196 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:34,507 FREDERICK. 197 00:09:34,507 --> 00:09:36,443 THAT IS WHEN OUR PATHS FIRST 198 00:09:36,443 --> 00:09:42,582 CROSSED IN THE NCI LAB AT 199 00:09:42,582 --> 00:09:43,683 BIONETTICS IN BETHESDA. 200 00:09:43,683 --> 00:09:51,491 AT THAT TIME, I WAS THERE TO 201 00:09:51,491 --> 00:09:52,225 SUCCEED SYLVIE, WHO 202 00:09:52,225 --> 00:09:55,628 UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT BE WITH US 203 00:09:55,628 --> 00:09:55,929 TODAY. 204 00:09:55,929 --> 00:10:02,535 I WAS THERE FOR PART OF 205 00:10:02,535 --> 00:10:04,070 RESTRICTION OF MURINE VIRUS IN 206 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:08,007 THE LABORATORY OF BOB BASSEN, AS 207 00:10:08,007 --> 00:10:09,209 WAS MENTIONED, UNFORTUNATELY BOB 208 00:10:09,209 --> 00:10:14,481 PASSED AWAY A YEAR AGO. 209 00:10:14,481 --> 00:10:18,852 I STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBER THAT 210 00:10:18,852 --> 00:10:21,588 PERIOD WITH YOU, ALAN, BOB, 211 00:10:21,588 --> 00:10:24,457 BRENDA, AND OTHERS. 212 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:27,961 I WAS YOUNG, EAGER, VERY EXCITED 213 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:29,996 TO LEARN ABOUT RETROVIRUSES FROM 214 00:10:29,996 --> 00:10:34,667 YOU AND PERHAPS A LITTLE NERVOUS 215 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:37,137 ABOUT BEING OUT OF THE COUNTRY 216 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:41,407 WITH MY POOR ENGLISH. 217 00:10:41,407 --> 00:10:49,849 BUT I VERY RAPIDLY SENSED THE 218 00:10:49,849 --> 00:10:52,018 INTELLECT ENVIRONMENT, I NOT 219 00:10:52,018 --> 00:10:53,653 ONLY FOUND FANTASTIC MENTORS 220 00:10:53,653 --> 00:11:00,660 WITH BOB AND YOU, BUT ALSO 221 00:11:00,660 --> 00:11:01,761 LIFELONG FRIENDS. 222 00:11:01,761 --> 00:11:04,264 BELIEVE IT OR NOT, ALAN, WE HAVE 223 00:11:04,264 --> 00:11:09,202 KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR NEARLY HALF 224 00:11:09,202 --> 00:11:10,303 A CENTURY. 225 00:11:10,303 --> 00:11:13,239 ALMOST 15 YEARS AGO ALREADY YOU 226 00:11:13,239 --> 00:11:16,976 WERE ATTENDING IN PERSON WITH 227 00:11:16,976 --> 00:11:22,448 BOB AND DAN, ANOTHER LIFELONG 228 00:11:22,448 --> 00:11:24,751 NCI FRIEND, AT MEETING ORGANIZED 229 00:11:24,751 --> 00:11:27,754 FOR MY RETIREMENT AT PASTEUR 230 00:11:27,754 --> 00:11:30,023 INSTITUTE IN OCTOBER 2015. 231 00:11:30,023 --> 00:11:32,525 SO OBVIOUSLY I WANTED TO BE 232 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:36,563 THERE TODAY FOR YOU, AT LEAST AT 233 00:11:36,563 --> 00:11:37,463 DISTANCE. 234 00:11:37,463 --> 00:11:43,136 LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO BRIEFLY 235 00:11:43,136 --> 00:11:46,439 REFLECT ON NOT ONLY YOUR 236 00:11:46,439 --> 00:11:47,240 SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS, THAT 237 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,810 WAS ALREADY -- THEY WERE ALREADY 238 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:54,314 MENTIONED, BY ERIC, BUT ALSO THE 239 00:11:54,314 --> 00:11:56,049 INCREDIBLE PERSON YOU ARE. 240 00:11:56,049 --> 00:12:00,219 AS YOU ALL KNOW HERE, ALAN'S 241 00:12:00,219 --> 00:12:03,957 PASSION AND COMMITMENT TO 242 00:12:03,957 --> 00:12:07,760 SCIENCE IS NOTHING SHORT OF 243 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:08,094 INSPIRING. 244 00:12:08,094 --> 00:12:09,629 HE HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES 245 00:12:09,629 --> 00:12:12,031 THAT WERE MENTIONED TO OUR 246 00:12:12,031 --> 00:12:14,667 UNDERSTANDING OF SEVERAL ASPECTS 247 00:12:14,667 --> 00:12:19,138 OF REPLICATION OF MURINE AND 248 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,907 HUMAN RETROVIRUSES INCLUDING 249 00:12:20,907 --> 00:12:21,874 HIV. 250 00:12:21,874 --> 00:12:24,410 ACCORDING TO THE AGENDA OF THE 251 00:12:24,410 --> 00:12:27,680 MEETING TODAY, THE NEXT SPEAKER 252 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:30,516 WILL CERTAINLY MENTION ALAN'S 253 00:12:30,516 --> 00:12:34,887 CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF 254 00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:37,290 MOLECULAR, STRUCTURING, AND 255 00:12:37,290 --> 00:12:40,460 FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED 256 00:12:40,460 --> 00:12:42,328 IN VIRAL ACTIVITY AND 257 00:12:42,328 --> 00:12:50,103 MATURATION, REGULATION OF 258 00:12:50,103 --> 00:12:50,536 INFECTION. 259 00:12:50,536 --> 00:12:58,211 BUT PIONEERING WORK ON Fv1, AS 260 00:12:58,211 --> 00:13:01,481 WAS JUST MENTIONED, AND ON THE 261 00:13:01,481 --> 00:13:07,053 INTERACTION OF HIV-1 GAG WITH 262 00:13:07,053 --> 00:13:08,588 NUCLEIC ACID LEADING TO 263 00:13:08,588 --> 00:13:10,123 CONFIRMATIONAL CHANGES REQUIRED 264 00:13:10,123 --> 00:13:11,658 FOR VIRAL ASSEMBLY. 265 00:13:11,658 --> 00:13:14,961 ALAN'S RESEARCH HAS NOT ONLY 266 00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:17,263 ADVANCED OUR KNOWLEDGE BUT IT 267 00:13:17,263 --> 00:13:21,834 HAS ALSO PAVED THE WAY FOR 268 00:13:21,834 --> 00:13:25,905 FUTURE DISCOVERIES IN THE FIELD. 269 00:13:25,905 --> 00:13:30,376 BUT BEYOND HIS IMPRESSIVE 270 00:13:30,376 --> 00:13:31,244 SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS WHAT 271 00:13:31,244 --> 00:13:34,414 SETS ALAN APART IS HIS 272 00:13:34,414 --> 00:13:34,981 PERSONALITY. 273 00:13:34,981 --> 00:13:43,289 HE'S A MAN OF GENEROSITY, ALWAYS 274 00:13:43,289 --> 00:13:44,290 STANDING BY HIS PRINCIPLES AND 275 00:13:44,290 --> 00:13:46,592 HUMAN VALUES. 276 00:13:46,592 --> 00:13:50,630 IN A WORLD THAT OFTEN 277 00:13:50,630 --> 00:13:54,801 PRIORITIZES ACCOLADES, ALAN HAS 278 00:13:54,801 --> 00:13:56,769 ALWAYS REMAINED REFRESHINGLY 279 00:13:56,769 --> 00:13:57,203 MODEST. 280 00:13:57,203 --> 00:14:01,674 HE HAS NEVER SOUGHT THE 281 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:05,411 SPOTLIGHT BUT RATHER SHINING IT 282 00:14:05,411 --> 00:14:08,381 ON OTHERS, MENTORING COUNTLESS 283 00:14:08,381 --> 00:14:10,683 STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES ALONG 284 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:12,752 THE WAY. 285 00:14:12,752 --> 00:14:16,556 HIS LOYALTY AND FRIENDSHIP HAVE 286 00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:17,757 BEEN UNWAVERING. 287 00:14:17,757 --> 00:14:21,627 THROUGH THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF 288 00:14:21,627 --> 00:14:24,797 OUR CAREERS, ALAN WAS ALWAYS 289 00:14:24,797 --> 00:14:27,200 THERE, OFFERING OR LISTENING 290 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:30,036 HERE AND FRIENDLY SUPPORT. 291 00:14:30,036 --> 00:14:33,673 HE HAS ALWAYS REMINDED US THAT 292 00:14:33,673 --> 00:14:39,145 SCIENCE IS NOT JUST ABOUT DATA, 293 00:14:39,145 --> 00:14:41,681 REPLICATION, BUT ABOUT THE 294 00:14:41,681 --> 00:14:45,051 PEOPLE WE WORK AND FOR AND ABOUT 295 00:14:45,051 --> 00:14:49,989 THE RELATIONSHIP WE BUILD, ABOUT 296 00:14:49,989 --> 00:14:51,524 COLLABORATION, ABOUT SHARING 297 00:14:51,524 --> 00:14:52,525 GOALS. 298 00:14:52,525 --> 00:14:54,961 I HAVE WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF 299 00:14:54,961 --> 00:14:57,463 TIME WE SPENT TOGETHER IN THE 300 00:14:57,463 --> 00:15:02,402 LAB, AT HOME, OR SOMEWHERE ELSE 301 00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:04,704 EXCHANGING EXPERIENCE, SHARING 302 00:15:04,704 --> 00:15:07,306 OUR YEARS, AND DISCUSSING NOT 303 00:15:07,306 --> 00:15:11,911 ONLY SCIENCE BUT ALSO LIFE, 304 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,547 DREAMS, AND ASPIRATIONS. 305 00:15:14,547 --> 00:15:19,385 ALAN, YOU BELIEVED IN ME WHEN I 306 00:15:19,385 --> 00:15:23,089 SOMETIMES DID NOT BELIEVE IN 307 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:24,323 MYSELF, OFFERING YOUR GUIDANCE, 308 00:15:24,323 --> 00:15:28,327 ENCOURAGING ME TO PURSUE MY 309 00:15:28,327 --> 00:15:28,761 JOURNEY. 310 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:31,430 YOU CERTAINLY DID IT FOR MANY 311 00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:33,833 OTHERS AROUND YOU. 312 00:15:33,833 --> 00:15:37,003 YOUR ABILITY TO MENTOR IS A GIFT 313 00:15:37,003 --> 00:15:41,040 THAT HAS BEEN SO MUCH 314 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:41,707 APPRECIATED. 315 00:15:41,707 --> 00:15:46,179 YOUR HUMAN, YOUR KINDNESS, YOUR 316 00:15:46,179 --> 00:15:48,915 INSIGHTFUL SUPPORT HAVE ENRICHED 317 00:15:48,915 --> 00:15:52,652 OUR LIVES IN WAYS I CANNOT FULLY 318 00:15:52,652 --> 00:15:53,753 EXPRESS. 319 00:15:53,753 --> 00:15:58,024 NOW AS YOU STEP INTO THIS NEW 320 00:15:58,024 --> 00:16:03,930 CHAPTER OF LIFE, I'M EXCITED FOR 321 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:04,463 YOU. 322 00:16:04,463 --> 00:16:05,665 ALAN, YOU WILL SEE, RETIREMENT 323 00:16:05,665 --> 00:16:06,666 IS NOT AN END. 324 00:16:06,666 --> 00:16:08,301 IT IS A BEGINNING. 325 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:12,238 IT IS A TIME TO EXPLORE NEW 326 00:16:12,238 --> 00:16:15,975 PASSIONS, NEW HOBBIES, TO 327 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:20,012 TRAVEL, TO SPEND TIME WITH 328 00:16:20,012 --> 00:16:21,547 FRIENDS, FAMILY, ENJOY NATURE 329 00:16:21,547 --> 00:16:24,717 INCLUDING BIRD WATCHING AND ALL 330 00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:25,518 THE BEAUTY. 331 00:16:25,518 --> 00:16:28,321 I KNOW WHATEVER YOU DECIDE TO 332 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:33,025 PURSUE YOU WILL APPROACH IT WITH 333 00:16:33,025 --> 00:16:36,095 THE SAME DEDICATION THAT YOU 334 00:16:36,095 --> 00:16:39,065 BROUGHT TO YOUR SCIENTIFIC 335 00:16:39,065 --> 00:16:39,498 CAREER. 336 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:43,102 ALAN, THANKS FOR BEING NOT ONLY 337 00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:46,372 A SCIENTIST AND MENTOR, ALSO A 338 00:16:46,372 --> 00:16:48,908 TRUE AND LOYAL FRIEND. 339 00:16:48,908 --> 00:16:50,209 YOUR LEGACY WILL LIVE IN THE 340 00:16:50,209 --> 00:16:52,511 HEART OF THOSE YOU HAVE 341 00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:55,681 INSPIRED, AND IN THE WORK THAT 342 00:16:55,681 --> 00:17:02,021 THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO IN YOUR 343 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:02,255 HONOR. 344 00:17:02,255 --> 00:17:04,757 WHILE YOU MAY BE RETIRING FROM 345 00:17:04,757 --> 00:17:05,524 PROFESSIONAL LIFE, YOU WILL 346 00:17:05,524 --> 00:17:08,394 ALWAYS BE PART OF OUR SCIENTIFIC 347 00:17:08,394 --> 00:17:10,663 COMMUNITY AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 348 00:17:10,663 --> 00:17:13,799 SEEING WHERE THIS NEW JOURNEY 349 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:14,533 TAKES YOU. 350 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:18,471 MAY THE NEXT CHAPTER OF YOUR 351 00:17:18,471 --> 00:17:22,608 LIFE BE FILLED WITH JOY, 352 00:17:22,608 --> 00:17:25,378 ADVENTURE, AND ALL THE HAPPINESS 353 00:17:25,378 --> 00:17:28,648 YOU SO RICHLY DESERVE, ALAN. 354 00:17:28,648 --> 00:17:31,817 ENJOY, CHEERS TO YOU. 355 00:17:31,817 --> 00:17:42,028 THANK YOU. 356 00:18:07,186 --> 00:18:14,226 >> THAT'S A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW. 357 00:18:14,226 --> 00:18:15,428 I THANK YOU, FRANCOISE. 358 00:18:15,428 --> 00:18:18,197 AGAIN, I COULDN'T WISH FOR 359 00:18:18,197 --> 00:18:19,765 ANYTHING MORE. 360 00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:22,468 OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JONATHAN 361 00:18:22,468 --> 00:18:28,975 STOYE, AND JUST A FEW WORDS. 362 00:18:28,975 --> 00:18:32,178 SO, AS FRANCOISE INDICATED, I 363 00:18:32,178 --> 00:18:34,580 CAME INTO MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS 364 00:18:34,580 --> 00:18:40,052 WORK BY WAY OF BOB BASSEN. 365 00:18:40,052 --> 00:18:42,121 I INHERITED BOB BASSEN AS A 366 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:45,057 BOSS, WHEN I INHERITED BOB HE 367 00:18:45,057 --> 00:18:47,360 WAS ACTUALLY ON SABBATICAL IN 368 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:47,793 PARIS. 369 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:53,265 AND HE CAME BACK AND SAID, OKAY 370 00:18:53,265 --> 00:18:56,035 NOW, THERE'S THIS NEW THING 371 00:18:56,035 --> 00:18:57,503 Fv1 RESTRICTION, BRAND NEW AND 372 00:18:57,503 --> 00:18:58,337 REALLY INTERESTING. 373 00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:03,042 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON 374 00:19:03,042 --> 00:19:03,242 IT. 375 00:19:03,242 --> 00:19:06,579 AND SO THIS -- WE NOW SEE Fv1 376 00:19:06,579 --> 00:19:11,717 AS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF 377 00:19:11,717 --> 00:19:13,319 RESTRICTION FACTORS, BUT AT THE 378 00:19:13,319 --> 00:19:17,590 TIME NOBODY HAD EVER HEARD OF A 379 00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:19,558 RESTRICTION FACTOR, Fv1 WAS 380 00:19:19,558 --> 00:19:23,062 UNIQUE, SINGULAR FOR MANY YEARS. 381 00:19:23,062 --> 00:19:26,899 I DID SOME -- IN BOB'S LAB I DID 382 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:31,370 SOME KIND OF ELEMENTARY GENETICS 383 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:33,572 CHARACTERIZING SOME OF THE 384 00:19:33,572 --> 00:19:37,076 PARTIES OF ITS INTERACTION WITH 385 00:19:37,076 --> 00:19:38,577 MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUSES WHICH 386 00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:41,447 ARE FASCINATING, STILL NOT FULLY 387 00:19:41,447 --> 00:19:43,949 UNDERSTOOD. 388 00:19:43,949 --> 00:19:45,384 BUT THEN IT GOT HARD. 389 00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:48,220 WHEN IT GOT HARD I WENT WITH 390 00:19:48,220 --> 00:19:50,189 OTHER THINGS TO DO. 391 00:19:50,189 --> 00:19:53,125 AND THAT'S WHERE JONATHAN COMES 392 00:19:53,125 --> 00:19:53,559 IN. 393 00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:55,661 JONATHAN DID NOT DROP Fv1 WHEN 394 00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:56,862 IT GOT HARD. 395 00:19:56,862 --> 00:19:59,832 HE STUCK WITH IT YEAR AFTER YEAR 396 00:19:59,832 --> 00:20:03,436 AFTER YEAR, AND BROKE IT OPEN. 397 00:20:03,436 --> 00:20:06,038 HE CLONED Fv1 AND HAS 398 00:20:06,038 --> 00:20:07,239 CONTINUED TO CHARACTERIZE Fv1 399 00:20:07,239 --> 00:20:09,775 AND NOW OTHER RESTRICT FACTORS 400 00:20:09,775 --> 00:20:10,743 AS WELL. 401 00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:14,346 AND HAS LEARNED A LOT OF AMAZING 402 00:20:14,346 --> 00:20:15,681 THINGS ABOUT Fv1. 403 00:20:15,681 --> 00:20:17,416 SO, JONATHAN, THANK YOU FOR 404 00:20:17,416 --> 00:20:17,650 COMING. 405 00:20:17,650 --> 00:20:28,194 I'M DELIGHTED YOU CAN BE HERE. 406 00:20:33,099 --> 00:20:35,134 >> IT'S A GREAT APPRECIATE TO BE 407 00:20:35,134 --> 00:20:35,601 IN FREDERICK. 408 00:20:35,601 --> 00:20:46,112 IT WAS A PLACE THAT I REMEMBER 409 00:20:49,615 --> 00:20:52,284 WITH PLEASURE. 410 00:20:52,284 --> 00:20:53,719 WE FIRST MET AT COLD SPRING 411 00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:55,454 HARBOR 45 YEARS AGO. 412 00:20:55,454 --> 00:21:00,059 CAN YOU FIND ALAN LOOKING SOBER 413 00:21:00,059 --> 00:21:08,134 CAN YOU FIND ME PARTYING? 414 00:21:08,134 --> 00:21:08,400 [LAUGHTER] 415 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,436 IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM 416 00:21:10,436 --> 00:21:12,404 WHO CAN FIND THEMSELVES IN THESE 417 00:21:12,404 --> 00:21:12,738 PICTURES? 418 00:21:12,738 --> 00:21:15,274 IT'S INTERESTING. 419 00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:17,443 SIX OF THE SPEAKERS TODAY WERE 420 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:19,445 PRESENT AT THAT MEETING. 421 00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:29,955 AT LEAST SIX, BY MY COUNT SIX. 422 00:21:33,826 --> 00:21:38,931 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT Fv1. 423 00:21:38,931 --> 00:21:41,767 AND SHOW HOW STARTING WITH THE 424 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:43,502 BIOLOGY THAT ALAN AND OTHERS 425 00:21:43,502 --> 00:21:45,704 WORKED ON IN THE '70s WE 426 00:21:45,704 --> 00:21:47,039 LEARNED A LOT ABOUT 427 00:21:47,039 --> 00:21:54,413 RETROVIRUSES, HOW THEY WORK. 428 00:21:54,413 --> 00:21:56,682 SO, PEOPLE THOUGHT RETRO CAUSES 429 00:21:56,682 --> 00:21:57,683 CAUSED CANCER, THERE WAS 430 00:21:57,683 --> 00:22:00,853 INTEREST IN GENES IN MICE THAT 431 00:22:00,853 --> 00:22:06,759 WOULD PROTECT AGAINST RETROVIRUS 432 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:07,393 INFECTION. 433 00:22:07,393 --> 00:22:09,195 AND FORTUNATELY APPROXIMATELY 434 00:22:09,195 --> 00:22:10,162 INDEPENDENTLY THESE TWO 435 00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:11,897 GENTLEMEN, FRANK LILLY AND WALLY 436 00:22:11,897 --> 00:22:17,603 ROWE, DISCOVERED THE GENE CALLED 437 00:22:17,603 --> 00:22:18,037 Fv1. 438 00:22:18,037 --> 00:22:19,205 BASIC PROPERTIES ARE SUMMARIZED 439 00:22:19,205 --> 00:22:22,508 HERE, IN MICE THERE ARE TWO 440 00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:25,811 MAJOR ALLELES, A LITTLE N AND 441 00:22:25,811 --> 00:22:31,817 LITTLE B, THEY RESTRICT B AND N 442 00:22:31,817 --> 00:22:37,089 TROPIC VIRUSES RESPECTIVELY. 443 00:22:37,089 --> 00:22:38,724 THE SUSCEPTIBILITY DETERMINED IN 444 00:22:38,724 --> 00:22:41,927 MLV MAPS TO CAPSID, SPECIFICALLY 445 00:22:41,927 --> 00:22:45,397 AMINO ACID 110 IN THE CAPSID 446 00:22:45,397 --> 00:22:45,664 MOLECULE. 447 00:22:45,664 --> 00:22:48,901 AS WE'LL SEE, THERE ARE OTHER 448 00:22:48,901 --> 00:22:52,638 PARTS OF CAPSID THAT ARE 449 00:22:52,638 --> 00:22:58,978 INVOLVED, CAN INFLUENCE THIS 450 00:22:58,978 --> 00:22:59,278 INTERACTION. 451 00:22:59,278 --> 00:23:01,580 SO, WORK Fv1 IN THE '70s, 452 00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,015 THESE ARE SOME PAPERS THAT CAME 453 00:23:03,015 --> 00:23:07,386 FROM HIM AND FROM BOB BASSEN. 454 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:10,256 I'LL DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE 455 00:23:10,256 --> 00:23:13,659 BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER, WHICH 456 00:23:13,659 --> 00:23:17,129 FOR ME WAS -- BECAME KEY, THAT'S 457 00:23:17,129 --> 00:23:19,665 THAT YOU CAN OVERCOME Fv1 458 00:23:19,665 --> 00:23:21,400 RESTRICTION IF YOU INFECT WITH 459 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,370 THE RIGHT VIRUS BUT THE CELL 460 00:23:24,370 --> 00:23:26,672 MAKING -- IF THE CELL IS MAKING 461 00:23:26,672 --> 00:23:28,841 THAT VIRUS IT STILL SHOWS Fv1 462 00:23:28,841 --> 00:23:32,344 RESTRICTION, I'LL RETURN TO THAT 463 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:33,445 BRIEFLY LATER. 464 00:23:33,445 --> 00:23:35,748 SO, THIS SLIDE SUMMARIZES WHAT 465 00:23:35,748 --> 00:23:39,485 WE KNOW ABOUT OR WHERE Fv1 466 00:23:39,485 --> 00:23:39,818 WORKS. 467 00:23:39,818 --> 00:23:41,787 WORK FROM ALAN AND MANY OTHER 468 00:23:41,787 --> 00:23:45,291 PEOPLE, SOME IN THIS ROOM TODAY, 469 00:23:45,291 --> 00:23:47,259 DESCRIBING WHERE Fv1 ACTS. 470 00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:52,765 Fv1 SEEMS TO TARGET VIRUS AT A 471 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:57,569 STAGE IN THE REPLICATION CYCLE 472 00:23:57,569 --> 00:23:59,204 UNCOATINGS OCCUR, SEEMS TO BLOCK 473 00:23:59,204 --> 00:24:00,739 MURINE IMPORT. 474 00:24:00,739 --> 00:24:02,942 IT DOES NOT INTERACT -- Fv1 475 00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:04,476 DOES NOT INTERACT WITH CAPSID ON 476 00:24:04,476 --> 00:24:14,653 THE WAY OUT. 477 00:24:14,653 --> 00:24:18,891 SO, WE WERE INTERESTED IN Fv1 478 00:24:18,891 --> 00:24:21,660 IN THE '70s. 479 00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:23,962 I WISH I COULD FIND THE 480 00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:24,863 ANNOUNCEMENT, THE PIECE OF PAPER 481 00:24:24,863 --> 00:24:27,666 ON WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN I WAS 482 00:24:27,666 --> 00:24:30,269 GOING TO TALK ABOUT A PAPER ON 483 00:24:30,269 --> 00:24:34,006 Fv1 BUT COULDN'T FIND IT. 484 00:24:34,006 --> 00:24:36,308 THE FACT THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE 485 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:38,610 A MOUSE GENE, WORKS ON MOUSE 486 00:24:38,610 --> 00:24:40,913 VIRUSES, PEOPLE SORT OF LOST 487 00:24:40,913 --> 00:24:44,416 INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT. 488 00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:49,421 BUT I ALWAYS BELIEVED STRONGLY 489 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:51,090 IN COMPARATIVE APPROACH, 490 00:24:51,090 --> 00:24:53,625 STUDYING HUMAN RETROVIRUSES BY 491 00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:55,561 STUDYING NON-HUMAN RETROVIRUSES 492 00:24:55,561 --> 00:24:56,362 IN NON-HUMAN SYSTEM. 493 00:24:56,362 --> 00:24:59,631 SO WHEN I HAD THE TUNED TO SET 494 00:24:59,631 --> 00:25:02,601 UP MY OWN LAB, I DECIDED TO TRY 495 00:25:02,601 --> 00:25:04,803 AND USE A POSITIONAL APPROACH, 496 00:25:04,803 --> 00:25:05,804 GENETIC APPROACH THAT RATHER 497 00:25:05,804 --> 00:25:06,538 APPEALED TO ME. 498 00:25:06,538 --> 00:25:08,941 WHEN I WAS A POSTDOC WITH JOHN 499 00:25:08,941 --> 00:25:11,010 COFFIN, TOGETHER WITH WAYNE 500 00:25:11,010 --> 00:25:13,212 FRANKEL, WE IDENTIFIED FOUR 501 00:25:13,212 --> 00:25:15,414 ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES THAT 502 00:25:15,414 --> 00:25:17,916 WERE LINKED TO Fv1 503 00:25:17,916 --> 00:25:18,550 GENETICALLY. 504 00:25:18,550 --> 00:25:20,319 AND I DECIDED TO USE THOSE AS 505 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:23,822 STARTING POINTS IN THE SEARCH 506 00:25:23,822 --> 00:25:26,125 FOR Fv1. 507 00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:28,293 FIRST GENERATING A BETTER 508 00:25:28,293 --> 00:25:30,796 GENETIC MAP, THEN MAKING YAC 509 00:25:30,796 --> 00:25:35,200 CLONES, LARGE CLONES FOR THE 510 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,069 REGION AND INTRODUCE INTO CELLS 511 00:25:37,069 --> 00:25:39,571 AND SHOW WHICH ONES HAVE Fv1, 512 00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:45,911 AND FOLLOW THE ACTIVITY. 513 00:25:45,911 --> 00:25:46,879 IT WAS A STRUGGLE. 514 00:25:46,879 --> 00:25:51,150 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF 515 00:25:51,150 --> 00:25:53,118 DIFFICULTIES, LIKE A MASS 516 00:25:53,118 --> 00:25:54,987 HEPATITIS VIRUS INFECTION OF THE 517 00:25:54,987 --> 00:25:56,488 ANIMAL COLONY, WE HAD TO DO LESS 518 00:25:56,488 --> 00:26:00,559 OF A SURVEY OF THE GENETIC 519 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:01,660 CROSS. 520 00:26:01,660 --> 00:26:02,961 AND THERE WERE INSTABILITY REACT 521 00:26:02,961 --> 00:26:04,496 CLONES, AND OTHER THINGS OF THE 522 00:26:04,496 --> 00:26:08,000 EVENTUALLY WE CLONED THE GENE. 523 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:08,801 GREAT. 524 00:26:08,801 --> 00:26:10,102 THIS WAS MY MOMENT IN THE 525 00:26:10,102 --> 00:26:10,369 SPOTLIGHT. 526 00:26:10,369 --> 00:26:12,504 DID I HAVE A MOMENT IN THE 527 00:26:12,504 --> 00:26:13,939 SPOTLIGHT. 528 00:26:13,939 --> 00:26:16,008 I RATHER ENJOYED IT. 529 00:26:16,008 --> 00:26:16,742 [LAUGHTER] 530 00:26:16,742 --> 00:26:19,378 IT TURNED OUT THAT Fv1 WAS 531 00:26:19,378 --> 00:26:22,147 DERIVED FROM ONE OF THESE 532 00:26:22,147 --> 00:26:22,681 ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES. 533 00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:25,050 I WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM 534 00:26:25,050 --> 00:26:26,819 ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS, SPENT SO 535 00:26:26,819 --> 00:26:29,354 MUCH TIME WORKING ON THEM, AND 536 00:26:29,354 --> 00:26:31,323 NOW ANOTHER ENDOGENOUS 537 00:26:31,323 --> 00:26:31,623 RETROVIRUS. 538 00:26:31,623 --> 00:26:38,096 IT IS A VIRUS BELONGING TO THE 539 00:26:38,096 --> 00:26:39,498 ERV-L, RISEN BY COLLEAGUES, 540 00:26:39,498 --> 00:26:42,134 Fv1 CAN BE RECOGNIZED AS OPEN 541 00:26:42,134 --> 00:26:43,902 READING FRAME OF 1400 542 00:26:43,902 --> 00:26:47,739 NUCLEOTIDES THAT ENCODES THE 543 00:26:47,739 --> 00:26:50,676 ABILITY TO RESTRICT VIRUSES. 544 00:26:50,676 --> 00:26:53,879 WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHERE -- 545 00:26:53,879 --> 00:26:56,048 WHAT THE ORIGINAL ERV-L WAS. 546 00:26:56,048 --> 00:27:04,056 WE CAN FIND OTHERS IN GENOMES OF 547 00:27:04,056 --> 00:27:06,125 RODENTS, BUT 50% SIMILARITY. 548 00:27:06,125 --> 00:27:08,760 IT'S ONLY ABOUT 10% SIMILARITY, 549 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,697 IF ONE IS INVOKING SOME KIND OF 550 00:27:11,697 --> 00:27:14,766 LIKE WITH LIKE MECHANISM, IT'S 551 00:27:14,766 --> 00:27:17,269 GOT TO BE SEEING SOMETHING, A 552 00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:19,471 MORE COMPLICATED PRINCIPLE THAN 553 00:27:19,471 --> 00:27:21,306 THE AMINO ACID SEQUENCE. 554 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:24,409 SO, WE ALSO NOTED IN THE 555 00:27:24,409 --> 00:27:25,477 ORIGINAL CLONING THAT Fv1 DID 556 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,913 NOT SEEM TO BE PRESENT IN RAT 557 00:27:27,913 --> 00:27:30,516 DNA, AND SO WE CONCLUDED THAT 558 00:27:30,516 --> 00:27:34,119 THE GENE HAD -- THIS Fv1 HAD 559 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,587 ARISEN LESS THAN 10 MILLION 560 00:27:35,587 --> 00:27:37,556 YEARS AGO, SEPARATION BETWEEN 561 00:27:37,556 --> 00:27:39,191 RAT AND MOUSE. 562 00:27:39,191 --> 00:27:42,561 HOWEVER, A MORE EXTENSIVE STUDY 563 00:27:42,561 --> 00:27:46,765 OF LOTS OF DIFFERENT -- DNA FROM 564 00:27:46,765 --> 00:27:50,469 LOTS OF CREATURES SUGGESTED THAT 565 00:27:50,469 --> 00:27:52,971 IN FACT THE Fv1 INSERTION THAT 566 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:58,043 GAVE RISE TO Fv1 OCCURRED 45 567 00:27:58,043 --> 00:27:58,777 MILLION YEARS AGO. 568 00:27:58,777 --> 00:28:01,513 IT WAS LOST BY DELETION OF THE 569 00:28:01,513 --> 00:28:06,218 FAIRLY HIGH FREQUENCY OR BY 570 00:28:06,218 --> 00:28:07,319 POINT MUTATION. 571 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:08,620 NEVERTHELESS IT'S QUITE 572 00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:10,155 REMARKABLE THIS OPEN READING 573 00:28:10,155 --> 00:28:11,590 FRAME HAS PERSISTED FOR THIS 574 00:28:11,590 --> 00:28:14,259 PERIOD OF TIME. 575 00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:16,628 SO, THE CALCULATION SAYS THAT IN 576 00:28:16,628 --> 00:28:19,131 45 MILLION YEARS AGO THERE'S AN 577 00:28:19,131 --> 00:28:21,133 ENORMOUSLY HIGH PROBABILITY THE 578 00:28:21,133 --> 00:28:23,502 GENE WILL BE LOST OVER TIME 579 00:28:23,502 --> 00:28:25,003 WHICH SUGGESTS IN ORDER TO 580 00:28:25,003 --> 00:28:26,471 MAINTAIN THE GENE YOU HAVE TO 581 00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:28,774 HAVE A SELECTIVE FORCE. 582 00:28:28,774 --> 00:28:32,377 THAT SAYS IT'S A GOOD THING. 583 00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:37,749 NOW, THIS RAISES A PROBLEM 584 00:28:37,749 --> 00:28:39,518 BECAUSE MLVs ONLY AROSE, LET'S 585 00:28:39,518 --> 00:28:40,819 SAY ABOUT 5 MILLION YEARS AGO. 586 00:28:40,819 --> 00:28:43,322 SO WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE 587 00:28:43,322 --> 00:28:44,990 PREVIOUS 40 MILLION YEARS? 588 00:28:44,990 --> 00:28:49,795 IS IT POSSIBLE THERE ARE OTHER 589 00:28:49,795 --> 00:28:51,763 VIRUSES AROUND -- THAT Fv1 590 00:28:51,763 --> 00:28:54,733 COULD RESTRICT? 591 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,035 AND THAT'S A QUESTION WE SPENT 592 00:28:57,035 --> 00:28:59,071 TIME WORKING ON, TRYING IDENTIFY 593 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:02,808 OTHER VIRUSES THAT MIGHT BE 594 00:29:02,808 --> 00:29:05,010 RESTRICTED BY Fv1. 595 00:29:05,010 --> 00:29:07,946 AND WE'VE NOW TESTED THE 596 00:29:07,946 --> 00:29:10,315 RESTRICTION PROPERTIES OF 39 597 00:29:10,315 --> 00:29:14,553 Fv1 DERIVATIVES AGAINST 22 598 00:29:14,553 --> 00:29:14,786 VIRUSES. 599 00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:16,955 WITH RESTRICTION OF GAMMA 600 00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:20,359 RETROVIRUS IS MOST COMMON, WE'VE 601 00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:22,227 ALSO IDENTIFIED EXAMPLES OF 602 00:29:22,227 --> 00:29:23,996 ACTIVITY AGAINST MULTIPLE OTHER 603 00:29:23,996 --> 00:29:27,799 KINDS OF RETROVIRUSES INCLUDING 604 00:29:27,799 --> 00:29:29,668 ALPHAS, BETAS, DELTA, LENTI, AND 605 00:29:29,668 --> 00:29:30,435 FOAMY VIRUSES. 606 00:29:30,435 --> 00:29:32,604 I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GO INTO 607 00:29:32,604 --> 00:29:33,939 FOAMY VIRUSES BUT IT'S HAVING 608 00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:37,109 GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE 609 00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:40,278 STRUCTURE OF FOAMY VIRUSES. 610 00:29:40,278 --> 00:29:42,948 THIS JUST SHOWS YOU A TREE OF 611 00:29:42,948 --> 00:29:46,551 Fv1 IN LOTS OF RODENTS, AND 612 00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:49,821 THE VIRUSES THAT CAN BE 613 00:29:49,821 --> 00:29:52,691 RESTRICTED BY THESE. 614 00:29:52,691 --> 00:29:56,728 SO, THERE ARE MULTIPLE EXAMPLES 615 00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:58,030 OF RESTRICTION. 616 00:29:58,030 --> 00:30:02,434 IT'S RARE TO SEE RESTRICTION OF 617 00:30:02,434 --> 00:30:07,205 ALL THE DIFFERENT VIRUSES BY A 618 00:30:07,205 --> 00:30:08,640 SINGLE Fv1 MOLECULE. 619 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,143 BY COMBINING THEM WE CAN LOSE 620 00:30:11,143 --> 00:30:12,344 BOTH ACTIVITIES, TAKE THE AMINO 621 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:13,578 ACID OF ONE, TRY TO MAKE 622 00:30:13,578 --> 00:30:15,113 SOMETHING THAT SEE LOTS OF 623 00:30:15,113 --> 00:30:17,315 VIRUSES, WE DON'T GET IT. 624 00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:18,950 WHICH SAYS THIS THING CAN 625 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:20,585 RECOGNIZE LOTS OF DIFFERENT 626 00:30:20,585 --> 00:30:23,221 VIRUSES, BUT THERE ARE CHANGES 627 00:30:23,221 --> 00:30:33,565 THAT OCCUR, ASSOCIATED WITH THE 628 00:30:33,565 --> 00:30:35,133 DIFFERENT RESTRICTION 629 00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:35,467 SPECIFICITIES. 630 00:30:35,467 --> 00:30:38,437 AROSE 45 MILLION YEARS AGO, CAN 631 00:30:38,437 --> 00:30:40,972 SEE LOTS OF THINGS. 632 00:30:40,972 --> 00:30:44,910 SOMETIMES THESE SIGNAL AMINO 633 00:30:44,910 --> 00:30:46,545 ACID CHANGE IN Fv1 IS 634 00:30:46,545 --> 00:30:47,946 SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW RECOGNITION 635 00:30:47,946 --> 00:30:50,148 OF A DIFFERENT VIRUS. 636 00:30:50,148 --> 00:30:53,752 AND YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT 637 00:30:53,752 --> 00:30:56,588 THIS IS A SINGLE AMINO ACID IN A 638 00:30:56,588 --> 00:30:58,657 PROTEIN THAT DIFFERS FROM ITS 639 00:30:58,657 --> 00:31:00,792 TARGET BY 50 TO 90%. 640 00:31:00,792 --> 00:31:03,395 SO, IT IS VERY -- Fv1 IS 641 00:31:03,395 --> 00:31:06,231 DIFFERENT FROM ITS TARGET WITH A 642 00:31:06,231 --> 00:31:07,766 SINGLE AMINO ACID MAKING A 643 00:31:07,766 --> 00:31:08,867 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RESTRICTING 644 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:09,768 AND NOT RESTRICTING. 645 00:31:09,768 --> 00:31:12,604 AND SOME BUT NOT ALL CASES WE 646 00:31:12,604 --> 00:31:13,371 CAN COMBINE MULTIPLE 647 00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:14,906 SPECIFICITIES, THERE'S AT LEAST 648 00:31:14,906 --> 00:31:22,981 ONE CASE WHERE YOU AFEAR HAVE 649 00:31:22,981 --> 00:31:24,416 DUPLICATED, YOU HAVE TWO, ONE 650 00:31:24,416 --> 00:31:27,486 CAN RESTRICT ONE VIRUS, ANOTHER 651 00:31:27,486 --> 00:31:29,454 CAN RESTRICT ANOTHER KIND OF 652 00:31:29,454 --> 00:31:32,524 VIRUS, SEEMS TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF 653 00:31:32,524 --> 00:31:33,925 THINGS Fv1 IS CAPABLE OFF. 654 00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:36,795 I WOULD ARGUE THIS GENE SURVIVED 655 00:31:36,795 --> 00:31:39,297 FOR ALL THIS TIME, IMPLIES A 656 00:31:39,297 --> 00:31:40,732 SERIES OF INFECTIONS BY 657 00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:42,033 DIFFERENT VIRUSES, ALL THROUGH 658 00:31:42,033 --> 00:31:43,568 OUR HISTORY. 659 00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:47,239 AND I GUESS THAT TO A 660 00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:48,173 RETROVIROLOGIST THAT'S NOT A 661 00:31:48,173 --> 00:31:50,709 SURPRISED BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK 662 00:31:50,709 --> 00:31:52,477 ABOUT VIRUSES APPEARING ONCE, 663 00:31:52,477 --> 00:31:53,779 AND CAUSING AIDS, AND, YOU KNOW, 664 00:31:53,779 --> 00:31:55,180 THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THE PAST 665 00:31:55,180 --> 00:32:00,786 OR THE FUTURE IN THIS REGARD. 666 00:32:00,786 --> 00:32:03,021 SO HOW DOES Fv1 RESTRICT? 667 00:32:03,021 --> 00:32:06,458 UNFORTUNATELY WE STILL DON'T 668 00:32:06,458 --> 00:32:07,492 KNOW. 669 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:10,061 HOWEVER MUCH WE WORK, WE DON'T 670 00:32:10,061 --> 00:32:12,364 KNOW HOW IT WORKS. 671 00:32:12,364 --> 00:32:17,502 WE CAN SHOW SPECIFIC RESPONDING 672 00:32:17,502 --> 00:32:19,471 OF Fv1 TO ASSEMBLE CAPSID. 673 00:32:19,471 --> 00:32:25,610 YOU CAN ASSEMBLE CAPSIDS ON THE 674 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:27,813 TUBES IN THE LEFT-HAND CORNER, 675 00:32:27,813 --> 00:32:30,081 FORMS A HEXAGONAL ARRAY IN A WAY 676 00:32:30,081 --> 00:32:32,951 THAT'S SIMILAR TO THAT SEEN IN 677 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:38,623 MATURE VIROMES. 678 00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:45,063 WE CAN SHOW SPECIFICITY, SHOW 679 00:32:45,063 --> 00:32:49,467 SPECIFIC BINDING OF Fv1 TO 680 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,670 B-MLV BUT NOT N-MLV. 681 00:32:51,670 --> 00:32:53,405 YOU DON'T GET BINDING THIS WAY 682 00:32:53,405 --> 00:32:55,407 IF YOU STICK THE CAPSID MOLECULE 683 00:32:55,407 --> 00:33:01,580 ON TO THESE AND TRY TO PULL DOWN 684 00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:04,216 THIS COMPLEXES WITH THESE TUBES. 685 00:33:04,216 --> 00:33:09,588 SO WE THINK IT'S RECOGNIZING 686 00:33:09,588 --> 00:33:11,656 SOMETHING VIRUS-LIKE. 687 00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,759 AND THIS SEEMS TO SHOW A CERTAIN 688 00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,695 SIMILARITY TO THAT OF THE 689 00:33:16,695 --> 00:33:18,897 MORE -- PERHAPS THE MORE FAMOUS 690 00:33:18,897 --> 00:33:20,432 RESTRICTION FACTOR WHERE PEOPLE 691 00:33:20,432 --> 00:33:23,935 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SHOW THAT 692 00:33:23,935 --> 00:33:31,610 Fv1 BINDS TO THE CAUSE FOR 693 00:33:31,610 --> 00:33:33,245 VIRUSES BY MICROSCOPY. 694 00:33:33,245 --> 00:33:34,346 IT BINDS TO ASSEMBLIES. 695 00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:38,583 THAT WAS ONE PIECE OF 696 00:33:38,583 --> 00:33:39,484 INFORMATION. 697 00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:42,554 WE ALSO REALIZED FROM STUDIES OF 698 00:33:42,554 --> 00:33:47,792 DIFFERENT MLVs, SOME OF WHICH 699 00:33:47,792 --> 00:33:50,862 AROSE BY ESCAPE FROM Fv1, BUT 700 00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:52,597 THE BINDING DOMAINS ARE SPREAD 701 00:33:52,597 --> 00:33:57,435 ACROSS THE ENTIRE SURFACE OF THE 702 00:33:57,435 --> 00:34:00,472 MOLECULE, SO -- OR RATHER AMINO 703 00:34:00,472 --> 00:34:02,240 ACID DIFFERENCES THAT CAN 704 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,108 INFLUENCE INTERACTION ARE SPREAD 705 00:34:03,108 --> 00:34:08,480 ALL OVER THE TOP OF THE 706 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:08,914 MOLECULE. 707 00:34:08,914 --> 00:34:11,449 AGAIN, ARGUING AGAINST THE 708 00:34:11,449 --> 00:34:13,285 SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT BUT A 709 00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:15,820 WIDE POINT OF CONTACT WITH 710 00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:18,123 Fv1, ITS TARGET. 711 00:34:18,123 --> 00:34:21,426 WE'VE LOOKED IN SOME DETAIL AT 712 00:34:21,426 --> 00:34:24,596 THE SEQUENCES OF THESE DIFFERENT 713 00:34:24,596 --> 00:34:25,997 Fv1s WE'VE ISOLATED, THIS 714 00:34:25,997 --> 00:34:28,233 INITIAL -- THE INITIAL ANALYSIS 715 00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:31,036 WAS DONE WITH 19 SPECIES OF 716 00:34:31,036 --> 00:34:31,269 Fv1. 717 00:34:31,269 --> 00:34:32,904 WE'VE NOW LOOKED AT AT LEAST 39 718 00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:33,672 OR SO. 719 00:34:33,672 --> 00:34:36,942 WHAT WE SEE IS A SEQUENCE TENDS 720 00:34:36,942 --> 00:34:40,445 TO BE WELL CONSERVED, WITH 721 00:34:40,445 --> 00:34:44,950 DIFFERENCES CLUSTERING IN FOUR 722 00:34:44,950 --> 00:34:48,853 REGIONS, OF WHICH THREE, WHAT WE 723 00:34:48,853 --> 00:34:52,057 CALL VB AND VC AND VD, 724 00:34:52,057 --> 00:34:55,627 ASSOCIATED WITH THE DIFFERENCES 725 00:34:55,627 --> 00:34:59,164 BETWEEN THE N AND ALLELES OF 726 00:34:59,164 --> 00:34:59,531 Fv1. 727 00:34:59,531 --> 00:35:04,936 SO, YOU'VE GOT A CONSERVED 728 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:06,037 SEQUENCE IMPLYING CONSERVED 729 00:35:06,037 --> 00:35:08,673 FUNCTION BUT CLUSTERS OF 730 00:35:08,673 --> 00:35:10,208 DIFFERENCES, POSSIBLY IMPLYING 731 00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:11,943 THESE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE 732 00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:13,378 BINDING INTERACTION. 733 00:35:13,378 --> 00:35:16,781 AND THIS JUST SHOWS ONE EXAMPLE 734 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:18,984 OF CHANGES YOU CAN SEE IN ONE OF 735 00:35:18,984 --> 00:35:19,784 THESE REGIONS. 736 00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:21,586 WE HAVE ONE AMINO ACID CHANGE 737 00:35:21,586 --> 00:35:23,121 THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE 738 00:35:23,121 --> 00:35:26,625 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Fv1 N AND 739 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:28,360 B, A DIFFERENT ONE, SLIGHTLY 740 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,229 DIFFERENT POSITION, WHICH IS 741 00:35:31,229 --> 00:35:35,100 IMPORTANT FOR THIRD SPECIFICITY 742 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:36,468 OF Fv1. 743 00:35:36,468 --> 00:35:39,471 AND OTHER CHANGES THAT ARE 744 00:35:39,471 --> 00:35:46,478 IMPORTANT FOR RECOGNITION OF 745 00:35:46,478 --> 00:35:47,779 STILL MORE VIRUSES. 746 00:35:47,779 --> 00:35:49,080 THE DETAILS ARE PERHAPS NOT 747 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,917 IMPORTANT BUT THE IDEA THAT YOU 748 00:35:52,917 --> 00:35:56,855 CAN HAVE CHANGES OF RECOGNITION 749 00:35:56,855 --> 00:36:00,158 PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH 750 00:36:00,158 --> 00:36:05,730 SIGNAL AMINO ACIDS IS IMPORTANT. 751 00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:09,334 SO, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS IN OUR 752 00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:10,101 STUDIES Fv1 IS FLIPPING 753 00:36:10,101 --> 00:36:11,202 IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK WITH. 754 00:36:11,202 --> 00:36:15,140 IF YOU TRY EXPRESS IT IN 755 00:36:15,140 --> 00:36:17,008 BACTERIA, IT ALWAYS AGGREGATED. 756 00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:20,278 AND THIS MAY BE A REFLECTION, 757 00:36:20,278 --> 00:36:23,681 ITS INHERENT ABILITY TO 758 00:36:23,681 --> 00:36:25,984 AGGREGATE WITH VIRUSES, IT CAN 759 00:36:25,984 --> 00:36:29,387 ALSO AGGREGATE WITH ITSELF. 760 00:36:29,387 --> 00:36:32,557 SO, WE -- 25 YEARS WE'VE SPENT 761 00:36:32,557 --> 00:36:34,526 TRYING TO EXPRESS THIS THING SO 762 00:36:34,526 --> 00:36:39,664 WE COULD DO STRUCTURAL STUDIES. 763 00:36:39,664 --> 00:36:43,601 WHEN ALPHA CAME AROUND, WE 764 00:36:43,601 --> 00:36:45,770 RELUCTANTLY TRIED PUTTING OUR 765 00:36:45,770 --> 00:36:51,910 MOLECULE INTO ALPHAFOLD. 766 00:36:51,910 --> 00:36:53,678 THIS SHOWS THE STRUCTURE OF THE 767 00:36:53,678 --> 00:36:55,747 C-TERMINAL REGION OF Fv1. 768 00:36:55,747 --> 00:37:02,220 THE N-TERMINAL REGION IS STATE 769 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:02,654 -- IS 770 00:37:02,654 --> 00:37:03,021 STRAIGHTFORWARD. 771 00:37:03,021 --> 00:37:04,522 THIS IS WELL SEPARATED FROM THE 772 00:37:04,522 --> 00:37:04,723 DIMER. 773 00:37:04,723 --> 00:37:07,492 WHAT YOU CAN SEE IF WE MAP IN 774 00:37:07,492 --> 00:37:09,794 THESE -- IF WE INDICATE THE 775 00:37:09,794 --> 00:37:15,066 POSITION OF THESE VARIABLE 776 00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:16,367 REGIONS, AVB, VC, AGAIN 777 00:37:16,367 --> 00:37:19,637 APPROACHING THE SURFACE OF ONE 778 00:37:19,637 --> 00:37:21,406 SIDE, IMPLYING TWO DINNER PLATES 779 00:37:21,406 --> 00:37:22,841 STICKING TO ONE ANOTHER. 780 00:37:22,841 --> 00:37:25,710 PERHAPS THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR 781 00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:26,010 RESTRICTION. 782 00:37:26,010 --> 00:37:31,049 WE TOOK THIS A BIT FURTHER VERY 783 00:37:31,049 --> 00:37:31,583 RECENTLY. 784 00:37:31,583 --> 00:37:33,251 I'M SORRY, THIS ISN'T A 785 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:36,988 SUBMARINE OR SOMETHING BUT IT'S 786 00:37:36,988 --> 00:37:39,290 A MODEL OF THE CORE HEXAMER 787 00:37:39,290 --> 00:37:42,861 BASED ON WORK FROM ALAN AND 788 00:37:42,861 --> 00:37:46,030 COLLABORATORS, AND WE'VE TRIED 789 00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:47,165 TO ADD THIS Fv1 BINDING DOMAIN 790 00:37:47,165 --> 00:37:48,700 A TOP OF IT. 791 00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:50,768 WHAT WE CAN SEE WHEN WE DID 792 00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:52,203 THAT, THIS IS STILL VERY 793 00:37:52,203 --> 00:37:54,606 PRELIMINARY, AND WE WOULD LIKE 794 00:37:54,606 --> 00:37:58,109 TO HAVE MORE INFORMATION BY 795 00:37:58,109 --> 00:37:59,544 CROSS-LINKING OR MASS SPEC TYPE 796 00:37:59,544 --> 00:38:00,612 DATA APPROACHES. 797 00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:08,086 WHAT WE SEEM TO SEE IS E349 AND 798 00:38:08,086 --> 00:38:13,324 K358, TWO AMINO ACIDS I 799 00:38:13,324 --> 00:38:15,760 MENTIONED ARE BINDING TO OR 800 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,664 ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDUES IN TWO 801 00:38:19,664 --> 00:38:24,602 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HEXAMER 802 00:38:24,602 --> 00:38:29,207 CONSIST END Fv1 IS SOMEHOW 803 00:38:29,207 --> 00:38:30,074 CROSS-LINKING DIFFERENT 804 00:38:30,074 --> 00:38:32,577 MOLECULES OF ITS TARGET. 805 00:38:32,577 --> 00:38:34,879 BUT IT IS VERY EARLY DAYS, 806 00:38:34,879 --> 00:38:40,585 MODELING IS STILL VERY 807 00:38:40,585 --> 00:38:42,320 PRELIMINARY, IT'S DIFFICULT, BUT 808 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,925 WE WILL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT. 809 00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:51,763 SO, Fv1 IS DERIVED FROM A 810 00:38:51,763 --> 00:38:55,833 RETROVIRUS, DOESN'T APPEAR TO 811 00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:58,369 INTERACT WITH SINGLE CA 812 00:38:58,369 --> 00:39:00,205 MOLECULES, WE'VE DONE THAT IN 813 00:39:00,205 --> 00:39:00,772 CELLS. 814 00:39:00,772 --> 00:39:03,541 WE KNOW THAT Fv1 CAN FORM 815 00:39:03,541 --> 00:39:06,811 PUNCTATE ASSEMBLIES AND THAT IF 816 00:39:06,811 --> 00:39:08,880 WE PREVENT THAT WE CAN PREVENT 817 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:09,180 RESTRICTION. 818 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:14,586 SO THE IDEA THERE'S SOME HIGHER 819 00:39:14,586 --> 00:39:15,687 CAPSID-LIKE CAPSID INTERACTION 820 00:39:15,687 --> 00:39:17,755 TAKING PLACE SEEMS REASONABLE. 821 00:39:17,755 --> 00:39:20,358 AND WE WOULD POSTULATE IT ACTED 822 00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:22,026 BY PREVENTING CROSS-LINKING IN A 823 00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:25,630 WAY YOU CAN INHIBIT HIV BY 824 00:39:25,630 --> 00:39:28,366 PUTTING IN CYSTEINE RESIDUES IN 825 00:39:28,366 --> 00:39:32,170 THE RIGHT PLACES, CROSS-LINK THE 826 00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:32,403 HEXAMER. 827 00:39:32,403 --> 00:39:37,875 I'M GOING TO CHANGE GEARS AND 828 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,478 BRIEFLY MENTION SOME OTHER 829 00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:43,781 FACTORS IN WHICH THE GAG GENE IS 830 00:39:43,781 --> 00:39:46,084 INVOLVED IN RESTRICTION. 831 00:39:46,084 --> 00:39:56,461 THE FIRST IS A FORMER 832 00:40:01,266 --> 00:40:02,734 RESTRICTION SEEN JAAGSIEKTE. 833 00:40:02,734 --> 00:40:07,205 IT APPEARS TO BE A DEFECTIVE 834 00:40:07,205 --> 00:40:08,706 GAGPOLY PROTEIN THAT INTERFERES 835 00:40:08,706 --> 00:40:10,608 WITH LATE REPLICATION OF THE 836 00:40:10,608 --> 00:40:11,409 RELATED VIRUSES. 837 00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:14,646 MAYBE ALAN CAN TELL US HOW THIS 838 00:40:14,646 --> 00:40:15,947 MIGHT WORK. 839 00:40:15,947 --> 00:40:19,250 AND SEEMS TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH 840 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:20,585 TRAFFIC AT THE VIRUS GENE. 841 00:40:20,585 --> 00:40:23,755 THAT'S ONE CASE WHERE GAG IS 842 00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:29,460 IMPORTANT FOR RESTRICTION. 843 00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:35,566 ANOTHER IS IN THE YEAST, TY1, 844 00:40:35,566 --> 00:40:39,837 YEAST LIKE US DOESN'T WANT WILD 845 00:40:39,837 --> 00:40:40,471 VIRUS INTERFERING AND MUTATING. 846 00:40:40,471 --> 00:40:42,907 THEY HAVE A WAY OF REGULATING, 847 00:40:42,907 --> 00:40:46,110 SEEMS TO BE MEDIATED BY A 848 00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:47,178 PROTEIN THAT'S ENCODED WITHIN 849 00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:49,380 THE GAG GENE. 850 00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:52,550 AND IT INHIBITS VIRUS PARTICLE 851 00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:53,251 FORMATION. 852 00:40:53,251 --> 00:40:54,185 AND IN COLLABORATION WITH I 853 00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:57,121 THINK SOME OF YOUR FORMER 854 00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:57,722 COLLABORATORS, DAVID GARFINKEL 855 00:40:57,722 --> 00:41:00,992 WHO USED TO BE HERE, WE'VE DONE 856 00:41:00,992 --> 00:41:06,264 STRUCTURAL ANALYSES THAT WOULD 857 00:41:06,264 --> 00:41:09,734 SAY THAT THE INHIBITION ARISES 858 00:41:09,734 --> 00:41:11,269 BECAUSE YOU'RE APPROACHING AND 859 00:41:11,269 --> 00:41:12,804 COMPETING WITH ASSEMBLY PROCESS, 860 00:41:12,804 --> 00:41:17,008 SEEMS TO BE INVOLVING THE SAME 861 00:41:17,008 --> 00:41:20,144 RESIDUES AS WHEN AN MLV 862 00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,747 ASSEMBLES, THE SAME REGION OF 863 00:41:22,747 --> 00:41:27,952 C-TERMINAL REGION OF THE PROTEIN 864 00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:28,786 IMPORTANT FOR ASSEMBLY. 865 00:41:28,786 --> 00:41:31,656 I'M SURE THAT THERE'S BEEN MORE 866 00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:33,091 TALK ABOUT THESE GAG GENES 867 00:41:33,091 --> 00:41:40,398 ACTING AS SAFETY FACTORS. 868 00:41:40,398 --> 00:41:43,134 IT IS INTERESTING THAT GAG SEEMS 869 00:41:43,134 --> 00:41:45,670 TO BE INVOLVED IN MULTIPLE 870 00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:47,071 DIFFERENT WAYS, BECAUSE IT DOES 871 00:41:47,071 --> 00:41:54,078 DIFFERENT THINGS FOR THE VIRUS. 872 00:41:54,078 --> 00:42:00,651 THE CELL DOES USE IT IN ORDER O 873 00:42:00,651 --> 00:42:01,586 INHIBIT VIRUS REPLICATION, ONE 874 00:42:01,586 --> 00:42:02,854 WONDERS HOW MANY MORE OF THESE 875 00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:05,456 THINGS ARE OUT THERE AND WHETHER 876 00:42:05,456 --> 00:42:06,457 OTHER GAGS PLAY PHYSIOLOGICAL 877 00:42:06,457 --> 00:42:08,059 ROLES OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, 878 00:42:08,059 --> 00:42:13,598 AND THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN. 879 00:42:13,598 --> 00:42:16,100 I WANT TO CLOSE BY SAYING I TOO 880 00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:19,437 HAVE BECOME A RETIRED GENTLEMAN 881 00:42:19,437 --> 00:42:20,705 OF LEISURE. 882 00:42:20,705 --> 00:42:21,038 [LAUGHTER] 883 00:42:21,038 --> 00:42:25,209 MY LAB CLOSED, AND I BECAME AN 884 00:42:25,209 --> 00:42:27,278 EMERITUS SCIENTIST AT THE CRICK 885 00:42:27,278 --> 00:42:28,479 A FEW WEEKS AGO. 886 00:42:28,479 --> 00:42:32,450 THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN ON TOP OF 887 00:42:32,450 --> 00:42:34,752 THE CRICK, JUST BEFORE COVID, 888 00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:37,955 I'VE LISTED HERE PEOPLE WHO DID 889 00:42:37,955 --> 00:42:38,923 TIME IN MY LAB. 890 00:42:38,923 --> 00:42:39,190 [LAUGHTER] 891 00:42:39,190 --> 00:42:40,792 I'D LIKE TO THANK THEM. 892 00:42:40,792 --> 00:42:44,729 I HOPE I HAVEN'T MISSED ANYBODY 893 00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:45,196 OUT. 894 00:42:45,196 --> 00:42:48,266 IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL TIME. 895 00:42:48,266 --> 00:42:52,203 AND I'D LIKE TO CLOSE WITH A 896 00:42:52,203 --> 00:42:56,007 FINAL SLIDE OF A GATHERING OF 897 00:42:56,007 --> 00:42:56,407 RETROVIROLOGYISTS. 898 00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:57,675 ONE OF THE -- THIS HAS BEEN ONE 899 00:42:57,675 --> 00:43:00,945 OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT BEING A 900 00:43:00,945 --> 00:43:02,480 MEMBER OF THIS GROUP, IT'S BEEN 901 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,650 A PRIVILEGE TO BE PART OF THIS 902 00:43:05,650 --> 00:43:07,318 GROUP TRYING TO WORK OUT 903 00:43:07,318 --> 00:43:08,286 INTERESTING BIOLOGY. 904 00:43:08,286 --> 00:43:09,287 AND GETTING TOGETHER 905 00:43:09,287 --> 00:43:09,620 PERIODICALLY. 906 00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,223 SO WE'VE GOT STEVE, WE'VE GOT 907 00:43:12,223 --> 00:43:13,858 JOHN AND ALAN, MYSELF, IF YOU 908 00:43:13,858 --> 00:43:17,462 LOOK CAREFULLY YOU CAN FIND 909 00:43:17,462 --> 00:43:23,067 STEVE AND KARIN, I THINK MONICA. 910 00:43:23,067 --> 00:43:24,602 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO HAVE 911 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,604 ALL THE SPEAKERS IN ONE PLACE AT 912 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:27,004 ONE TIME. 913 00:43:27,004 --> 00:43:28,739 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S REASONABLE. 914 00:43:28,739 --> 00:43:30,508 ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 915 00:43:30,508 --> 00:43:41,085 ALAN, IT'S BEEN A REAL PLEASURE 916 00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:52,697 >> [OFF MICROPHONE]. 917 00:43:52,697 --> 00:43:54,031 >> IT HAS, BUT IT'S NOT VERY 918 00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:54,532 GOOD. 919 00:43:54,532 --> 00:43:55,900 IT'S NOT A VERY GOOD VIRUS. 920 00:43:55,900 --> 00:44:01,305 AND THE ONE THAT WE HAVE IS 921 00:44:01,305 --> 00:44:03,508 Fv1 IS AWAY FROM. 922 00:44:03,508 --> 00:44:07,078 WE TRIED TO DO THAT. 923 00:44:07,078 --> 00:44:11,782 THIS IS -- THEY HAVE 924 00:44:11,782 --> 00:44:13,351 RECONSTRUCTED THE VIRUS, THE 925 00:44:13,351 --> 00:44:15,653 TIME IS UP, PRETTY AWFUL, 926 00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:17,822 EXPERIMENTS ARE DIFFICULT. 927 00:44:17,822 --> 00:44:22,560 WE'VE TRIED. 928 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,928 >> YOU SPECULATE Fv1 MIGHT 929 00:44:23,928 --> 00:44:27,932 PREVENT ENCODING, IS IT POSSIBLE 930 00:44:27,932 --> 00:44:34,038 IT MIGHT, YOU KNOW, INDUCE 931 00:44:34,038 --> 00:44:34,739 PREMIUM ENCODING? 932 00:44:34,739 --> 00:44:39,510 >> SEQUESTERING IS A REASONABLE 933 00:44:39,510 --> 00:44:39,810 POSSIBILITY. 934 00:44:39,810 --> 00:44:42,914 THERE ARE VERY OLD DATA FROM THE 935 00:44:42,914 --> 00:44:45,416 VIRUS LAB, SLIGHTLY DIFFICULT TO 936 00:44:45,416 --> 00:44:45,850 INTERPRET. 937 00:44:45,850 --> 00:44:48,486 WHICH SUGGESTS THAT FULL LENGTH 938 00:44:48,486 --> 00:44:50,788 DNA IS MADE NORMALLY AND GETS 939 00:44:50,788 --> 00:44:53,224 INTO THE NUCLEUS, BUT IT'S -- 940 00:44:53,224 --> 00:44:58,863 THE DATA -- IT'S NOT A VERY 941 00:44:58,863 --> 00:45:04,835 CLEAR PAPER. 942 00:45:04,835 --> 00:45:10,841 BUT YES, I MEAN, SO, WE KNOW 943 00:45:10,841 --> 00:45:15,880 TRIM5 IN SIMPLEST MANIFESTATION 944 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:20,284 ACTS BY CAUSING PREMATURE 945 00:45:20,284 --> 00:45:22,687 DISASSEMBLY BUT IT'S CLEAR IF 946 00:45:22,687 --> 00:45:25,656 YOU BLOCK TRIM5 FROM ITS 947 00:45:25,656 --> 00:45:28,059 ACTIVITIES YOU KILL CAN BLOCK 948 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:31,662 BOTH REPLICATION AND IT BECOMES 949 00:45:31,662 --> 00:45:42,006 MUCH CLOSER TO Fv1. 950 00:45:44,141 --> 00:45:45,676 >> VERY NICE. 951 00:45:45,676 --> 00:45:49,647 FV EXPRESSED IN -- (INAUDIBLE). 952 00:45:49,647 --> 00:45:50,815 >> IT'S NOT INDUCIBLE BY 953 00:45:50,815 --> 00:45:51,148 INTERFERON. 954 00:45:51,148 --> 00:45:55,286 IT'S EXPRESSED ONLY IN VERY LOW 955 00:45:55,286 --> 00:45:55,553 LEVELS. 956 00:45:55,553 --> 00:45:58,155 AND I SUSPECT, I NEVER HAVE 957 00:45:58,155 --> 00:46:02,193 FORMALLY SHOWN THIS, IT MIGHT BE 958 00:46:02,193 --> 00:46:06,397 TOXIC IF OVEREXPRESSED. 959 00:46:06,397 --> 00:46:10,301 IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN WE FIRST 960 00:46:10,301 --> 00:46:11,836 CLONED Fv1, INTO PLASMID 961 00:46:11,836 --> 00:46:14,538 EXPRESSION VECTOR, THIS IS WORK 962 00:46:14,538 --> 00:46:23,848 DONE BY KATE BISHOP, SHE ASSAYED 963 00:46:23,848 --> 00:46:25,916 EIGHT CLONES WITH RESISTANCE. 964 00:46:25,916 --> 00:46:27,018 FIVE DELETED Fv1. 965 00:46:27,018 --> 00:46:29,420 SO WHICH IS WHY ALL THE ASSAYS 966 00:46:29,420 --> 00:46:32,490 WE DO NOW ARE BASED ON TRANSIENT 967 00:46:32,490 --> 00:46:32,923 EXPRESSION. 968 00:46:32,923 --> 00:46:35,559 AND IT'S CLEAR THAT 969 00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:36,761 OVEREXPRESSING CAN INTERFERE 970 00:46:36,761 --> 00:46:38,462 WITH A READOUT, COMPARED TO THE 971 00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:39,163 NATURAL LEVELS. 972 00:46:39,163 --> 00:46:44,435 IF YOU LOOK AT THE NATURAL 973 00:46:44,435 --> 00:46:52,410 LEVELS, YOU CAN BARELY SEE IT. 974 00:46:52,410 --> 00:46:54,612 975 00:46:54,612 --> 00:46:57,148 976 00:46:57,148 --> 00:47:04,689 >> (INAUDIBLE) THIS STUDY 977 00:47:04,689 --> 00:47:11,796 SUGGESTS MOST OF THE RETROVIRUS 978 00:47:11,796 --> 00:47:15,633 IS ENDOGENOUS -- (INAUDIBLE). 979 00:47:15,633 --> 00:47:17,268 >> I DON'T KNOW. 980 00:47:17,268 --> 00:47:19,336 I MEAN, IF YOU WANT -- I DON'T 981 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,972 THINK THERE WOULD BE ANY MARKET 982 00:47:21,972 --> 00:47:24,175 TRYING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO 983 00:47:24,175 --> 00:47:27,011 REINVESTIGATE PRECISELY WHERE 984 00:47:27,011 --> 00:47:28,479 THE TRANSCRIPTION OCCURS IN MLV 985 00:47:28,479 --> 00:47:30,715 BUT MAYBE IT WOULD BE 986 00:47:30,715 --> 00:47:31,015 INTERESTING. 987 00:47:31,015 --> 00:47:32,149 AGAIN, AN EXPERIMENT TO SEE. 988 00:47:32,149 --> 00:47:42,727 >> SO DOES IT ONLY WORK ON -- - 989 00:47:44,595 --> 00:47:45,296 (INAUDIBLE). 990 00:47:45,296 --> 00:47:51,535 >> THE FOAMY VIRUS IS THE 991 00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:53,270 INTERESTING ONE TO CONSIDER, 992 00:47:53,270 --> 00:47:55,673 BECAUSE THE DETERMINED 993 00:47:55,673 --> 00:47:59,276 SPECIFICITY FOR Fv1 994 00:47:59,276 --> 00:48:01,979 SPECIFICITY WITH FOAMY IN THE 995 00:48:01,979 --> 00:48:04,014 N-TERMINAL REGION, NOT IN THE 996 00:48:04,014 --> 00:48:04,381 CAPSID. 997 00:48:04,381 --> 00:48:07,184 WE KNOW THAT THIS FOAMY VIRUS IS 998 00:48:07,184 --> 00:48:08,152 NOT CLEAVED. 999 00:48:08,152 --> 00:48:15,259 AND WE KNOW THAT THIS THING -- 1000 00:48:15,259 --> 00:48:21,198 OUTSIDE THE CAPSID, WHETHER IT'S 1001 00:48:21,198 --> 00:48:23,067 OBSCURED, INTERNAL REGIONS, OR 1002 00:48:23,067 --> 00:48:29,673 WHETHER THE N-TERMINAL REGION IS 1003 00:48:29,673 --> 00:48:30,941 ITSELF HELICAL, HEXAGONAL, I 1004 00:48:30,941 --> 00:48:31,509 DON'T KNOW. 1005 00:48:31,509 --> 00:48:33,778 IT WOULD BE VERY INTERESTING TO 1006 00:48:33,778 --> 00:48:34,345 LOOK AGAIN. 1007 00:48:34,345 --> 00:48:37,081 BUT PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT 1008 00:48:37,081 --> 00:48:39,049 WE CANNOT EXPRESS Fv1. 1009 00:48:39,049 --> 00:48:43,954 SO BINDING STUDIES ARE VERY 1010 00:48:43,954 --> 00:48:44,955 DIFFICULT. 1011 00:48:44,955 --> 00:48:47,057 NOW, WE HAVE -- EVERY FIVE YEARS 1012 00:48:47,057 --> 00:48:48,025 OR THREE YEARS, EVERY TIME WE 1013 00:48:48,025 --> 00:48:50,327 HAVE AN IDEA HOW WE MIGHT DO 1014 00:48:50,327 --> 00:48:54,064 THAT, WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE AT 1015 00:48:54,064 --> 00:49:00,404 THE MOMENT, BUT -- 1016 00:49:00,404 --> 00:49:02,706 >> EXPRESSION MAY BE DIFFICULT 1017 00:49:02,706 --> 00:49:08,045 BUT ALPHAFOLD DOES SEEM TO BE TO 1018 00:49:08,045 --> 00:49:11,448 DO INTERESTING THINGS. 1019 00:49:11,448 --> 00:49:13,617 MULTIMERS, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED 1020 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:13,751 -- 1021 00:49:13,751 --> 00:49:16,821 >> WE'VE CONSIDERED IT. 1022 00:49:16,821 --> 00:49:18,989 PART OF THE PROBLEM, WELL, NOT 1023 00:49:18,989 --> 00:49:20,324 WITH ALPHAFOLD ITSELF BUT WITH 1024 00:49:20,324 --> 00:49:24,461 THIS MOLECULE IS IT HAS THIS 1025 00:49:24,461 --> 00:49:30,434 LONG AND SPIRAL CODE AT THE 1026 00:49:30,434 --> 00:49:34,438 N-TERMINAL, THERE'S ABOUT 150 1027 00:49:34,438 --> 00:49:35,739 AMINO ACIDS OF UNSTRUCTURED 1028 00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:38,142 MATERIAL, AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS 1029 00:49:38,142 --> 00:49:42,079 DOMAIN THAT I SHOWED AT THE END 1030 00:49:42,079 --> 00:49:42,513 HERE. 1031 00:49:42,513 --> 00:49:48,452 NOW, IF -- AND I THINK Fv1 1032 00:49:48,452 --> 00:49:54,024 MUST BE WORKING AT LEAST AS A 1033 00:49:54,024 --> 00:49:55,092 DIMER IF YOU DIMERIZE, THE WAY 1034 00:49:55,092 --> 00:49:57,294 YOU POSITION THE OTHER TWO, IT'S 1035 00:49:57,294 --> 00:49:57,661 DIFFICULT. 1036 00:49:57,661 --> 00:50:01,332 I SUSPECT -- NO, WE HAVE TO TRY, 1037 00:50:01,332 --> 00:50:02,099 TRY MORE. 1038 00:50:02,099 --> 00:50:05,703 MAYBE WE DO IN THEORY HAVE OUR 1039 00:50:05,703 --> 00:50:07,171 NEIGHBORS, PERHAPS I COULD 1040 00:50:07,171 --> 00:50:09,440 ENCOURAGE THEM TO TAKE ON THIS 1041 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:13,944 AS A CHALLENGE, THAT THIS IS AN 1042 00:50:13,944 --> 00:50:15,913 INTERESTING MOLECULE. 1043 00:50:15,913 --> 00:50:18,115 BUT, NO, I AGREE. 1044 00:50:18,115 --> 00:50:19,650 WE HAVE ONLY JUST STARTED 1045 00:50:19,650 --> 00:50:22,253 THINKING ABOUT THIS. 1046 00:50:22,253 --> 00:50:25,222 WE HAVE THE ALPHAFOLD MODELS ARE 1047 00:50:25,222 --> 00:50:27,157 NOT -- ARE NOT NEW BUT TO TRY 1048 00:50:27,157 --> 00:50:32,229 AND FIT THIS AND PIN IT BY THE 1049 00:50:32,229 --> 00:50:36,467 AMINO ACIDS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE 1050 00:50:36,467 --> 00:50:38,168 VARIABLE REGIONS IS I THINK NEW, 1051 00:50:38,168 --> 00:50:40,804 TRYING TO DO THAT, WE JUST 1052 00:50:40,804 --> 00:50:46,243 STARTED. 1053 00:50:46,243 --> 00:50:48,879 >> I'M MORE CONFUSED. 1054 00:50:48,879 --> 00:50:51,015 I WAS TOLD MLV DOESN'T GET INTO 1055 00:50:51,015 --> 00:50:52,883 THE NUCLEUS AND WAIT FOR THE 1056 00:50:52,883 --> 00:50:56,453 NUCLEAR ENVELOPE TO BREAK DOWN. 1057 00:50:56,453 --> 00:51:02,560 WHAT DOES IT MEAN, NUCLEAR 1058 00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:03,961 ENTRY? 1059 00:51:03,961 --> 00:51:05,729 >> WELL, IT BOOKS A LATE STAGE 1060 00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:07,564 IN THAT PURPOSE WITH THE 1061 00:51:07,564 --> 00:51:10,768 REPLICATION CYCLE. 1062 00:51:10,768 --> 00:51:15,572 I'M SORRY. 1063 00:51:15,572 --> 00:51:23,247 TEXT BOOKS FOR THE 1990s. 1064 00:51:23,247 --> 00:51:25,849 I DON'T KNOW IF -- IF YOU 1065 00:51:25,849 --> 00:51:30,688 PREVENT THE CAPSID COMING APART. 1066 00:51:30,688 --> 00:51:33,857 >> RIGHT, YEAH. 1067 00:51:33,857 --> 00:51:35,926 >> WHICH IS COINCIDENT OR JUST 1068 00:51:35,926 --> 00:51:38,462 PRECEDES NUCLEAR ENTRY, PERHAPS 1069 00:51:38,462 --> 00:51:41,065 YOU HAVE A SIMILAR PHENOTYPE TO 1070 00:51:41,065 --> 00:51:43,701 BLOCKING NUCLEAR ENTRY. 1071 00:51:43,701 --> 00:51:44,001 >> RIGHT. 1072 00:51:44,001 --> 00:51:45,869 YOU'RE LOOKING AT TWO CIRCLES. 1073 00:51:45,869 --> 00:51:47,972 I THINK THE ANSWER IS EVEN IN 1074 00:51:47,972 --> 00:51:49,707 RAPIDLY DIVIDING CELLS WHERE THE 1075 00:51:49,707 --> 00:51:53,377 NUCLEAR MEMBRANE IS BREAKING 1076 00:51:53,377 --> 00:51:54,611 DOWN, Fv1 BLOCKS WHAT WOULD 1077 00:51:54,611 --> 00:51:57,247 NORMALLY HAPPEN SO YOU DON'T GET 1078 00:51:57,247 --> 00:52:02,486 CIRCLES, YOU GET FULL LENGTH 1079 00:52:02,486 --> 00:52:02,720 LINEAR. 1080 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:04,755 >> FULL LENGTH LINEAR, IN THE 1081 00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:07,758 NUCLEUS, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS 1082 00:52:07,758 --> 00:52:18,302 OF -- IN THE NUCLEAR FRACTION. 1083 00:52:23,741 --> 00:52:24,708 HELLO BACK, EVERYONE. 1084 00:52:24,708 --> 00:52:29,113 IT'S A PLEASURE NOW TO INTRODUCE 1085 00:52:29,113 --> 00:52:31,615 ONE OF THE WONDERFUL POSTDOCS 1086 00:52:31,615 --> 00:52:33,684 WHO HAS COME THROUGH MY LAB, 1087 00:52:33,684 --> 00:52:40,290 THAT'S DELPHINE MURIAUX. 1088 00:52:40,290 --> 00:52:41,925 SHE CAME FROM FRANCE, AND SHE 1089 00:52:41,925 --> 00:52:49,033 WENT BACK TO FRANCE TWICE. 1090 00:52:49,033 --> 00:52:51,869 SHE HAD A PERMANENT JOB. 1091 00:52:51,869 --> 00:52:57,141 AND SHE WENT BACK TO TAKE THAT 1092 00:52:57,141 --> 00:52:59,343 PERMANENT JOB, BUT SHE CAME BACK 1093 00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:02,813 TO MY LAB, SUPPOSEDLY 1094 00:53:02,813 --> 00:53:04,915 TEMPORARILY, AND NOW SHE'S IN A 1095 00:53:04,915 --> 00:53:05,783 MUCH BETTER POSITION. 1096 00:53:05,783 --> 00:53:11,588 SHE NOW IS RUNNING A SHOP OF HER 1097 00:53:11,588 --> 00:53:13,457 OWN IN MONTPELLIER AND HAS DONE 1098 00:53:13,457 --> 00:53:18,295 A LOT OF WONDERFUL WORK ON HIV 1099 00:53:18,295 --> 00:53:19,696 ASSEMBLY, I THINK DOING A LOT OF 1100 00:53:19,696 --> 00:53:21,231 VIRAL PHYSICS AND I THINK WE'LL 1101 00:53:21,231 --> 00:53:24,101 HEAR A LITTLE ABOUT THAT TODAY. 1102 00:53:24,101 --> 00:53:25,736 DELPHINE, THANK YOU FOR COMING. 1103 00:53:25,736 --> 00:53:27,604 IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL KNOWING YOU 1104 00:53:27,604 --> 00:53:30,240 ALL THESE YEARS, AND LOOKING 1105 00:53:30,240 --> 00:53:40,617 FORWARD TO YOUR TALK. 1106 00:53:41,385 --> 00:53:49,960 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ALAN. 1107 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,763 HAVEN'T BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS, 1108 00:53:52,763 --> 00:53:56,200 AND THERE ARE MANY FRIENDS OF 1109 00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,369 MINE IN THIS ROOM, AND SO I 1110 00:53:59,369 --> 00:54:05,242 THANK A LOT THE ORGANIZER TO 1111 00:54:05,242 --> 00:54:06,477 INVITING ME TODAY. 1112 00:54:06,477 --> 00:54:08,879 I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TALK. 1113 00:54:08,879 --> 00:54:15,252 ALAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL 1114 00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:19,056 THESE YEARS. 1115 00:54:19,056 --> 00:54:22,025 SO I JUST PUT TO SHOW YOU MY 1116 00:54:22,025 --> 00:54:26,530 STAY IN ALAN'S LAB WAS ALWAYS 1117 00:54:26,530 --> 00:54:36,039 SECURE, I CAME BACK TO FRANCE 1118 00:54:36,039 --> 00:54:37,808 BUT DIDN'T LIKE IT. 1119 00:54:37,808 --> 00:54:47,985 TOO MUCH TEST, COULDN'T DO WHAT 1120 00:54:47,985 --> 00:54:51,788 I WANTED. 1121 00:54:51,788 --> 00:54:57,528 I ASK IF I COULD COME BACK, 1122 00:54:57,528 --> 00:54:57,928 SURE. 1123 00:54:57,928 --> 00:55:00,464 I ROLLED BACK MY H1 VISA ON THE 1124 00:55:00,464 --> 00:55:00,697 SIDE. 1125 00:55:00,697 --> 00:55:02,533 I WEPT BACK TO FRANCE, TOOK THE 1126 00:55:02,533 --> 00:55:05,402 POSITION, I SAY KNOW, WENT BACK, 1127 00:55:05,402 --> 00:55:10,073 I TOOK BACK MY H1 VISA. 1128 00:55:10,073 --> 00:55:11,175 STAY FOR FOUR YEARS. 1129 00:55:11,175 --> 00:55:17,080 >> BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY. 1130 00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,050 >> AND THEN, YEAH, WHEN I CAME 1131 00:55:20,050 --> 00:55:25,422 BACK TO FRANCE THE FIRST TIME I 1132 00:55:25,422 --> 00:55:26,390 HIDE IT. 1133 00:55:26,390 --> 00:55:27,591 THERE WAS THIS LITTLE GUY, I 1134 00:55:27,591 --> 00:55:30,227 DON'T KNOW WHO HE WAS, THAT SAY, 1135 00:55:30,227 --> 00:55:33,197 BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT 1136 00:55:33,197 --> 00:55:35,832 HAPPENED IN 99. 1137 00:55:35,832 --> 00:55:38,035 I SAY, OKAY. 1138 00:55:38,035 --> 00:55:39,136 TWO CHOICE. 1139 00:55:39,136 --> 00:55:42,739 EITHER I LIE OR I PAY WITH 1140 00:55:42,739 --> 00:55:43,307 TRUTH. 1141 00:55:43,307 --> 00:55:45,142 IT WENT ONE, TWO, THREE. 1142 00:55:45,142 --> 00:55:46,810 WELL, IT'S TRUE, I WENT BACK TO 1143 00:55:46,810 --> 00:55:48,111 NIH BECAUSE I COULDN'T DO WHAT I 1144 00:55:48,111 --> 00:55:49,112 WANTED IN FRANCE. 1145 00:55:49,112 --> 00:55:50,214 BUT NOW I'M BACK. 1146 00:55:50,214 --> 00:55:52,916 IT'S UP TO YOU. 1147 00:55:52,916 --> 00:56:00,257 I GOT THE POSITION. 1148 00:56:00,257 --> 00:56:03,560 FOR ME WAS RESTRAINING IN GO 1149 00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:08,699 BACK IN 1999, WE DID A LOT. 1150 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:12,202 I TRIED TO SUMMARIZE. 1151 00:56:12,202 --> 00:56:16,573 IN 1995 IN COLD SPRING HARBOR, 1152 00:56:16,573 --> 00:56:19,109 IN 1996 MY FORMER BOSS INVITED 1153 00:56:19,109 --> 00:56:21,411 TO MY Ph.D. DEFENSE, YOU WERE 1154 00:56:21,411 --> 00:56:22,479 MY REVIEWER, RIGHT? 1155 00:56:22,479 --> 00:56:24,481 DURING MY Ph.D. DEFENSE. 1156 00:56:24,481 --> 00:56:29,820 AND AT THIS TIME WE SHARED THE 1157 00:56:29,820 --> 00:56:32,122 TEST FOR DIMERIZATION AND 1158 00:56:32,122 --> 00:56:33,457 NUCLEOCAPSID. 1159 00:56:33,457 --> 00:56:35,826 >> THAT'S WHAT YOU SAY. 1160 00:56:35,826 --> 00:56:36,093 [LAUGHTER] 1161 00:56:36,093 --> 00:56:38,795 I DIDN'T HEAR A WORD OF THE 1162 00:56:38,795 --> 00:56:39,930 DEFENSE BECAUSE IT WAS -- 1163 00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:41,965 >> IT WAS IN FRENCH. 1164 00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,600 >> THE WINDOWS WERE OPEN, 1165 00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:44,835 BECAUSE IT WAS HOT. 1166 00:56:44,835 --> 00:56:47,571 >> IT WAS HOT. 1167 00:56:47,571 --> 00:56:49,740 >> EVERYBODY WAS TALKING FRENCH 1168 00:56:49,740 --> 00:56:50,073 BESIDES. 1169 00:56:50,073 --> 00:56:50,741 >> YES. 1170 00:56:50,741 --> 00:56:53,810 BUT I DID ANSWER THE QUESTION IN 1171 00:56:53,810 --> 00:56:57,881 ENGLISH, NO? 1172 00:56:57,881 --> 00:56:58,215 NOT PERFECTLY. 1173 00:56:58,215 --> 00:56:59,716 [LAUGHTER] 1174 00:56:59,716 --> 00:57:05,522 THE SLIDES WERE IN ENGLISH. 1175 00:57:05,522 --> 00:57:06,723 >> OKAY. 1176 00:57:06,723 --> 00:57:06,990 [LAUGHTER] 1177 00:57:06,990 --> 00:57:08,592 >> WE SHARE THE SAME INTERESTS, 1178 00:57:08,592 --> 00:57:10,560 RIGHT? 1179 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:11,995 THERE WAS A BIOCHEMIST, KNEW 1180 00:57:11,995 --> 00:57:13,830 NOTHING ABOUT VIROLOGY, I WAS 1181 00:57:13,830 --> 00:57:17,434 VERY HAPPY TO GET TO ALAN'S LAB. 1182 00:57:17,434 --> 00:57:19,436 HE REALLY TAUGHT ME VIROLOGY. 1183 00:57:19,436 --> 00:57:26,677 YOU'RE THE ONE WHO TAUGHT ME 1184 00:57:26,677 --> 00:57:27,778 VIROLOGY. 1185 00:57:27,778 --> 00:57:32,149 SO, I THINK WE TRIED ANOTHER 1186 00:57:32,149 --> 00:57:40,123 ROLE OF JUST GENOME PACKAGING. 1187 00:57:40,123 --> 00:57:44,828 AND THEN WE DID ALSO CONTINUED 1188 00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:47,464 TO WORK ON NUCLEOCAPSID MUTANT 1189 00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:53,937 AND FOUND THAT THERE WERE SOME 1190 00:57:53,937 --> 00:57:56,440 MUTANTS THAT WERE SEDATING RAG, 1191 00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:57,507 HIGHLIGHTING THE FACT 1192 00:57:57,507 --> 00:57:59,276 TRANSLATION AND PACKAGING WERE 1193 00:57:59,276 --> 00:58:00,811 LINKED TOGETHER. 1194 00:58:00,811 --> 00:58:05,182 AND WE TRIED TO UNDERSTAND THAT 1195 00:58:05,182 --> 00:58:07,284 BETTER. 1196 00:58:07,284 --> 00:58:10,887 AND, YEAH, WE CONTINUED TO WORK 1197 00:58:10,887 --> 00:58:12,089 ON NUCLEOCAPSID ASSEMBLY AND 1198 00:58:12,089 --> 00:58:18,628 FOUND THAT IF YOU REMOVED THE 1199 00:58:18,628 --> 00:58:20,163 DOMAIN ACTIVITY PROTEIN WAS 1200 00:58:20,163 --> 00:58:22,132 STILL BINDING TO MEMBRANE BUT 1201 00:58:22,132 --> 00:58:27,738 WOULD NOT FORM STRUCTURES THAT 1202 00:58:27,738 --> 00:58:28,839 WERE LOOKING LIKE VIRAL 1203 00:58:28,839 --> 00:58:29,106 PARTICLE. 1204 00:58:29,106 --> 00:58:34,344 THAT WAS PART OF THE WORK WE 1205 00:58:34,344 --> 00:58:36,046 DID, AND OTHERS ALSO. 1206 00:58:36,046 --> 00:58:41,985 THEN I WANT TO SAY ALSO 1207 00:58:41,985 --> 00:58:44,054 OVERTHINKING, HAVE TIME TO GO AT 1208 00:58:44,054 --> 00:58:46,123 NIGHT WHEN EVERYBODY WAS GONE, 1209 00:58:46,123 --> 00:58:49,760 TALK TO THE BOSS, I WOULD GO 1210 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,929 INTO HIS OFFICE. 1211 00:58:52,929 --> 00:58:56,767 THE NICE OFFICE. 1212 00:58:56,767 --> 00:58:58,668 [LAUGHTER] 1213 00:58:58,668 --> 00:59:00,303 WE WERE ORGANIZED. 1214 00:59:00,303 --> 00:59:08,044 [LAUGHTER] 1215 00:59:08,044 --> 00:59:10,147 AND THEN MY COLLEAGUE. 1216 00:59:10,147 --> 00:59:14,718 IT WAS REALLY AMAZING. 1217 00:59:14,718 --> 00:59:16,586 THAT'S ME PAINTING. 1218 00:59:16,586 --> 00:59:18,989 REALLY NICE. 1219 00:59:18,989 --> 00:59:22,926 SO I TRIED TO LIST MAYBE I 1220 00:59:22,926 --> 00:59:25,562 FORGET A FEW THINGS BUT ALAN 1221 00:59:25,562 --> 00:59:27,864 TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING ON MULV 1222 00:59:27,864 --> 00:59:31,234 INFECTION, TRIED TO SHOW ME TO 1223 00:59:31,234 --> 00:59:32,769 MAKE -- CONVINCE ME ABOUT 1224 00:59:32,769 --> 00:59:34,204 RESTRICTION FACTOR BUT I'M VERY 1225 00:59:34,204 --> 00:59:40,143 SORRY, I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND. 1226 00:59:40,143 --> 00:59:40,677 [LAUGHTER] 1227 00:59:40,677 --> 00:59:43,447 AND YEAH, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY. 1228 00:59:43,447 --> 00:59:53,990 YOU KNOW, I TRIED TO GET AWAY. 1229 00:59:56,827 --> 01:00:03,667 IT WAS A CO-FACTOR. 1230 01:00:03,667 --> 01:00:12,075 AND THEN I LEARNED TO DO VIRUS, 1231 01:00:12,075 --> 01:00:18,949 BUT YOU'RE THE ONE DOING THAT. 1232 01:00:18,949 --> 01:00:28,158 AND WE DID A LOT OF -- WHEN I GO 1233 01:00:28,158 --> 01:00:33,530 BACK TO FRANCE, THAT'S WHY I DID 1234 01:00:33,530 --> 01:00:33,797 ACTIVITY. 1235 01:00:33,797 --> 01:00:39,970 I WENT NOT TO DO THAT AGAIN. 1236 01:00:39,970 --> 01:00:50,480 AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK NCI, 1237 01:00:57,621 --> 01:01:00,423 TRAINING MANY METHODOLOGY. 1238 01:01:00,423 --> 01:01:00,757 WONDERFUL. 1239 01:01:00,757 --> 01:01:03,093 AND I THANK YOU FOR SCIENTIFIC 1240 01:01:03,093 --> 01:01:04,895 EDUCATION, LATE IN THE EVENING, 1241 01:01:04,895 --> 01:01:10,800 BECAUSE IN THE MORNING, WE'RE 1242 01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:12,235 NOT MORNING PERSONS. 1243 01:01:12,235 --> 01:01:14,504 AND TO HAVE BETTER ENGLISH, I 1244 01:01:14,504 --> 01:01:16,406 REMEMBER COMING WITH MY PAPER, 1245 01:01:16,406 --> 01:01:19,543 VERY HAPPY, AND THEN CAME BACK 1246 01:01:19,543 --> 01:01:23,547 ALL RED. 1247 01:01:23,547 --> 01:01:25,482 SO BUT I TRIED. 1248 01:01:25,482 --> 01:01:27,551 BUT I'M NOT AS GOOD AS YOU. 1249 01:01:27,551 --> 01:01:28,885 YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK. 1250 01:01:28,885 --> 01:01:34,257 YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK. 1251 01:01:34,257 --> 01:01:35,992 AND ALSO MANY, MANY WE HAVE OUR 1252 01:01:35,992 --> 01:01:40,931 MEETING, THIS IS REALLY PART OF 1253 01:01:40,931 --> 01:01:46,303 MY FAMILY, I ENJOYED SEEING 1254 01:01:46,303 --> 01:01:48,939 TODAY. 1255 01:01:48,939 --> 01:01:55,512 YOU TAUGHT ME THINKING, I THINK, 1256 01:01:55,512 --> 01:01:56,680 TRUST, SELF-EMPOWERMENT, DEAF 1257 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:57,480 CONFIDENCE, TRUST. 1258 01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:01,084 THANK YOU FOR THAT. 1259 01:02:01,084 --> 01:02:03,053 AND ALSO WE HAD FRIENDSHIP, 1260 01:02:03,053 --> 01:02:06,423 RIGHT? 1261 01:02:06,423 --> 01:02:09,192 AND WE WERE CELEBRATING ALL 1262 01:02:09,192 --> 01:02:11,695 TOGETHER, VERY FUN, ALAN IS NOT 1263 01:02:11,695 --> 01:02:16,600 ALWAYS SERIOUS, AS YOU CAN SEE 1264 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:17,167 HERE. 1265 01:02:17,167 --> 01:02:18,802 [LAUGHTER] 1266 01:02:18,802 --> 01:02:22,405 AND STILL ON TODAY, WHO IS THIS 1267 01:02:22,405 --> 01:02:24,808 GUY BEHIND HERE? 1268 01:02:24,808 --> 01:02:26,142 THIS WAS THIS YEAR, COLD SPRING 1269 01:02:26,142 --> 01:02:29,412 HARBOR, VERY HAPPY AND WE HAD 1270 01:02:29,412 --> 01:02:33,483 THIS BIG PICTURE WITH ERIC, 1271 01:02:33,483 --> 01:02:37,053 FORMER TRAINEES, FROM THE 1272 01:02:37,053 --> 01:02:37,821 PROGRAMS, CONTINUING. 1273 01:02:37,821 --> 01:02:40,790 THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THAT. 1274 01:02:40,790 --> 01:02:46,496 AND THEN I TRAVELED BACK TO 1275 01:02:46,496 --> 01:02:47,130 FRANCE. 1276 01:02:47,130 --> 01:02:53,169 STILL CONTINUING THE WORK ON THE 1277 01:02:53,169 --> 01:02:55,472 ASSEMBLY, NUCLEOCAPSID, AND THEN 1278 01:02:55,472 --> 01:03:00,610 I TEN YEARS AGO, 12 YEARS AGO IN 1279 01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:02,245 MONTPELLIER TO GET CLOSER TO THE 1280 01:03:02,245 --> 01:03:04,648 VIRUS THAT I LIKE, THEY HAD A 1281 01:03:04,648 --> 01:03:10,387 VERY GOOD MICROSCOPE CENTER. 1282 01:03:10,387 --> 01:03:12,656 I END UP, BUT WHEN I WENT BACK 1283 01:03:12,656 --> 01:03:23,166 TO THE LAB I CONTINUED ON MULV 1284 01:03:25,335 --> 01:03:28,972 ASSEMBLY, SO WE DID THAT WORK, 1285 01:03:28,972 --> 01:03:37,981 WHERE WE SHOWED ALSO GAG WAS 1286 01:03:37,981 --> 01:03:40,183 TARGETING, THE DIFFERENCE WAS 1287 01:03:40,183 --> 01:03:45,188 THE FACT THAT THE FIRST SETTING 1288 01:03:45,188 --> 01:03:47,290 WAS SELECTING THE GAG AND 1289 01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:52,762 BINDING TO THE MEMBRANE BY P2, 1290 01:03:52,762 --> 01:03:55,932 WHICH DOESN'T NEED THAT, SO WE 1291 01:03:55,932 --> 01:03:58,635 CONTINUED THAT WORK. 1292 01:03:58,635 --> 01:04:02,405 AND GET INTERESTED IN THE LIPID 1293 01:04:02,405 --> 01:04:12,916 MEMBRANE, BINDING OF GAG, AND 1294 01:04:13,950 --> 01:04:14,584 RELATIONSHIP. 1295 01:04:14,584 --> 01:04:18,154 WITH ALAN ON THE INTERPLAY 1296 01:04:18,154 --> 01:04:25,061 BETWEEN GAG AND SERINE SITE, 1297 01:04:25,061 --> 01:04:34,137 ALSO A PROTEIN, THAT -- SO THAK 1298 01:04:34,137 --> 01:04:34,404 YOU. 1299 01:04:34,404 --> 01:04:35,638 UNFORTUNATELY IN FRANCE COULDN'T 1300 01:04:35,638 --> 01:04:38,508 GET ANY FUNDING. 1301 01:04:38,508 --> 01:04:41,544 I HAD TO SWITCH TO HIV. 1302 01:04:41,544 --> 01:04:49,219 AND WHEN I MOVED TO MONTPELLIER, 1303 01:04:49,219 --> 01:04:52,622 WE END UP TOOLS AND DIFFERENT 1304 01:04:52,622 --> 01:04:54,157 SCALE OF INVESTIGATING INFECTED 1305 01:04:54,157 --> 01:04:59,162 CELLS, UP TO SINGLE VIRUSES BY 1306 01:04:59,162 --> 01:04:59,829 MICROSCOPY DEVICE, FLUORESCENT 1307 01:04:59,829 --> 01:05:02,899 DEVICE, AND WE END UP WORKING ON 1308 01:05:02,899 --> 01:05:07,270 THIS DIFFERENT VIRUSES OVER 1309 01:05:07,270 --> 01:05:07,604 TIME. 1310 01:05:07,604 --> 01:05:08,905 ESPECIALLY NUCLEAR RESCUE. 1311 01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:13,076 TODAY I WILL FOCUS ON HIV. 1312 01:05:13,076 --> 01:05:20,183 I END UP ALSO IN 2017 BEING HEAD 1313 01:05:20,183 --> 01:05:26,523 OF THE TEAM IN MONTPELLIER WITH 1314 01:05:26,523 --> 01:05:29,492 TRAINING AND IMAGING, I SPENT MY 1315 01:05:29,492 --> 01:05:31,361 TIME PUTTING ALL THIS 1316 01:05:31,361 --> 01:05:35,832 MICROSCOPY, NOW THERE'S NO MORE 1317 01:05:35,832 --> 01:05:37,267 ROOM ANYMORE. 1318 01:05:37,267 --> 01:05:38,668 TO STUDY MAINLY HIV REPLICATION 1319 01:05:38,668 --> 01:05:39,669 IN T CELLS. 1320 01:05:39,669 --> 01:05:42,005 SO IN THE LAB WE'RE MAINLY 1321 01:05:42,005 --> 01:05:50,079 INTERESTED IN T CELLS. 1322 01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:53,283 FLUORESCENT HIV. 1323 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:55,051 TO STUDY THAT. 1324 01:05:55,051 --> 01:05:56,986 SO, WE ARE INTERESTED IN LATE 1325 01:05:56,986 --> 01:06:02,792 PHASE OF THE HIV REPLICATION, SO 1326 01:06:02,792 --> 01:06:05,862 AS I SAY, WORK VERY INSPIRING TO 1327 01:06:05,862 --> 01:06:06,362 ME. 1328 01:06:06,362 --> 01:06:08,932 YOU CAN SEE DIRECTLY I'M ON THE 1329 01:06:08,932 --> 01:06:12,468 LINE, AND WE'RE INTERESTED IN 1330 01:06:12,468 --> 01:06:14,604 WHAT P2 CLUSTERING BY GAG WOULD 1331 01:06:14,604 --> 01:06:21,544 TRIGGER IN A T CELL. 1332 01:06:21,544 --> 01:06:26,883 WHAT THE ACTING UNDERNEATH 1333 01:06:26,883 --> 01:06:31,921 REGULATION CHANGE, AND HOW THIS 1334 01:06:31,921 --> 01:06:37,293 WOULD INTERFERE WITH THE NORMAL 1335 01:06:37,293 --> 01:06:41,464 BRAIN, THE FORMATION OR DOING 1336 01:06:41,464 --> 01:06:44,534 HIV PREDICTION. 1337 01:06:44,534 --> 01:06:48,404 SO MUCH INSPIRED BY THE WORK IN 1338 01:06:48,404 --> 01:06:49,172 ERIC FREED'S LAB, TOGETHER 1339 01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:52,642 POSTDOC AT THE SAME TIME, THIS 1340 01:06:52,642 --> 01:06:55,078 WAS THE PAPER THAT INSPIRE US. 1341 01:06:55,078 --> 01:06:57,680 BUT AT THAT PERIOD OF TIME, 1342 01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,983 CORRECT ME, ERIC, WE DIDN'T KNOW 1343 01:06:59,983 --> 01:07:03,686 REALLY GAG WAS BINDING TO 1344 01:07:03,686 --> 01:07:05,355 PREEXISTING P2 HUB DOMAINS IN 1345 01:07:05,355 --> 01:07:08,992 THE MEMBRANE, OR IF GAG WAS 1346 01:07:08,992 --> 01:07:12,295 GENERATING THAT. 1347 01:07:12,295 --> 01:07:18,201 SO, THAT'S WHAT -- YEAH, 1348 01:07:18,201 --> 01:07:24,674 INSPIRING ME A LOT, LIPIDOMIC 1349 01:07:24,674 --> 01:07:26,542 EXTRACTION, COMPARING 1350 01:07:26,542 --> 01:07:27,510 COMPOSITION OF RETROVIRAL 1351 01:07:27,510 --> 01:07:29,379 PATHOGENS, AS GOING BACK TO 1352 01:07:29,379 --> 01:07:33,783 PLASMA MEMBRANE, INITIAL VERY 1353 01:07:33,783 --> 01:07:36,953 TYPICALLY THAT PSP 2 ENRICHED IN 1354 01:07:36,953 --> 01:07:39,155 THE MEMBRANE. 1355 01:07:39,155 --> 01:07:44,627 SO HOW COME? 1356 01:07:44,627 --> 01:07:50,633 SO, WHAT WE DID, WE SET UP 1357 01:07:50,633 --> 01:07:54,570 TOOLS, BASICALLY SOME TOOLS, AND 1358 01:07:54,570 --> 01:08:00,143 WITH THE GAG PROTEIN, TRIED TO 1359 01:08:00,143 --> 01:08:02,779 MEASURE LIPID DOMAIN BY DYNAMICS 1360 01:08:02,779 --> 01:08:07,016 AND SEE IF GAG WAS A TRIGGER OF 1361 01:08:07,016 --> 01:08:11,421 THIS PHENOMENON. 1362 01:08:11,421 --> 01:08:15,558 SO FOR EXAMPLE HERE FLAT 1363 01:08:15,558 --> 01:08:16,993 MEMBRANE, SCIENTIFIC COMPOSITION 1364 01:08:16,993 --> 01:08:19,529 UP TO PLASMA MEMBRANE, MANY 1365 01:08:19,529 --> 01:08:22,465 COMPOSITION, WE HAVE THE GAG 1366 01:08:22,465 --> 01:08:25,735 PROTEIN, THAT WE LABEL IN GREEN. 1367 01:08:25,735 --> 01:08:31,641 REPEAT P2 LABELED IN RED. 1368 01:08:31,641 --> 01:08:36,579 YOU CAN SEE OVER TIME, YOU CAN 1369 01:08:36,579 --> 01:08:39,215 SEE THE P2 IS CLUSTERING OVER 1370 01:08:39,215 --> 01:08:39,449 TIME. 1371 01:08:39,449 --> 01:08:43,586 AND YOU HAVE PERFECT 1372 01:08:43,586 --> 01:08:46,422 CO-LOCALIZATION BETWEEN THIS 1373 01:08:46,422 --> 01:08:51,728 CLUSTER, SAYING THAT GAG WAS THE 1374 01:08:51,728 --> 01:08:54,831 TRIGGER OF THE CLUSTERING AND 1375 01:08:54,831 --> 01:08:58,034 SETTING MAYBE NOT AS FAR AS WE 1376 01:08:58,034 --> 01:09:00,236 CAN LOOK PREEXISTING DOMAIN. 1377 01:09:00,236 --> 01:09:02,105 SO GAG WAS GENERATING THIS 1378 01:09:02,105 --> 01:09:04,307 DOMAIN BUT WE HAD TO PROVE THAT 1379 01:09:04,307 --> 01:09:08,978 IN T CELLS, SO THAT'S HOW WE 1380 01:09:08,978 --> 01:09:11,714 ASSOCIATED WITH JACOB AND 1381 01:09:11,714 --> 01:09:18,654 CHRISTIAN, AND WE SHOWED THAT IF 1382 01:09:18,654 --> 01:09:20,690 WE TRANSFECT A T CELL WITH HIV 1383 01:09:20,690 --> 01:09:26,362 GAG PROTEIN ONLY OR IF WE INFECT 1384 01:09:26,362 --> 01:09:32,268 THE CELL WITH HIV CLONE WE CAN 1385 01:09:32,268 --> 01:09:36,339 SEE EACH DO THE AT RESOLUTION, 1386 01:09:36,339 --> 01:09:41,611 AND THEN WE LABELED THE T CELL 1387 01:09:41,611 --> 01:09:47,283 WITH DIFFERENT LIPID, LIKE P2, 1388 01:09:47,283 --> 01:09:50,353 FLUORESCENT, APPLIED COUPLING TO 1389 01:09:50,353 --> 01:09:51,921 MICROSCOPY AND MEASURE DYNAMIC 1390 01:09:51,921 --> 01:09:53,656 OF THE REPEAT OUTSIDE THE 1391 01:09:53,656 --> 01:09:57,026 BURDEN, INSIDE THE BURDEN. 1392 01:09:57,026 --> 01:10:00,763 FROM THAT WE CAN EXTRACT 1393 01:10:00,763 --> 01:10:02,198 CONFINEMENT INDEX OF LIPID. 1394 01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:03,933 WHAT YOU CAN SEE EVEN IN THE 1395 01:10:03,933 --> 01:10:08,204 NICE T CELL WE COULD SEE P2 WAS 1396 01:10:08,204 --> 01:10:12,909 HIGHLY TRAPPED BY THE GAG 1397 01:10:12,909 --> 01:10:15,445 PROTEIN, EITHER INFECTED CLONE 1398 01:10:15,445 --> 01:10:18,481 OR IN GAG EXPRESSION T CELL. 1399 01:10:18,481 --> 01:10:19,482 CHOLESTEROL ALSO. 1400 01:10:19,482 --> 01:10:20,483 CHOLESTEROL WERE MORE TRAPPED 1401 01:10:20,483 --> 01:10:26,823 WHEN YOU HAVE ENVELOPE. 1402 01:10:26,823 --> 01:10:32,395 DIDN'T FIND PE TRAPPING FOR P2 1403 01:10:32,395 --> 01:10:35,598 AND CHOLESTEROL, WHICH WAS 1404 01:10:35,598 --> 01:10:36,132 MATCHING. 1405 01:10:36,132 --> 01:10:40,403 WE SAY THAT P2 AND CHOLESTEROL 1406 01:10:40,403 --> 01:10:42,371 ACTUALLY ARE THE LIPID TRAPPED 1407 01:10:42,371 --> 01:10:44,774 BY INFECTED T CELL. 1408 01:10:44,774 --> 01:10:47,043 BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN -- THE 1409 01:10:47,043 --> 01:10:51,013 PROTEIN BY ITSELF IS CONSTANTLY 1410 01:10:51,013 --> 01:10:54,283 CHANGING GRADIENT OF THE 1411 01:10:54,283 --> 01:10:55,718 MEMBRANE, THIS HAS STRONG 1412 01:10:55,718 --> 01:10:58,554 REPERCUSSION, P2 IS A MAIN 1413 01:10:58,554 --> 01:11:06,429 SIGNALING LIPID IN T CELL. 1414 01:11:06,429 --> 01:11:10,600 IT CAN INDUCE DIVERSITY. 1415 01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:14,437 NOW I SPEND MY TIME TO TRY TO 1416 01:11:14,437 --> 01:11:18,508 IDENTIFY OR UNDERSTANDING WHICH 1417 01:11:18,508 --> 01:11:26,048 FACTOR ARE INVOLVED IN THIS 1418 01:11:26,048 --> 01:11:27,049 FORMATION. 1419 01:11:27,049 --> 01:11:29,418 AND HERE, BEFORE WE WERE PLUG 1420 01:11:29,418 --> 01:11:35,024 DOWN DIFFERENT PATHWAY OF 1421 01:11:35,024 --> 01:11:39,729 SIGNALING LIKE THE ONE, AND WE 1422 01:11:39,729 --> 01:11:41,697 SHOW THIS PATHWAY WAS REQUIRED 1423 01:11:41,697 --> 01:11:50,206 IN T CELL. 1424 01:11:50,206 --> 01:11:54,944 YOU HAVE ONE, IRSP53, WE SHOW 1425 01:11:54,944 --> 01:11:58,548 THAT PAPER ACTIVATING WHEN GAG 1426 01:11:58,548 --> 01:11:59,982 WAS EXPRESSED. 1427 01:11:59,982 --> 01:12:06,656 SO THIS IS PARTICULAR, PROTEIN 1428 01:12:06,656 --> 01:12:13,529 IS ABLE TO GENERATE OUTWARD, AND 1429 01:12:13,529 --> 01:12:16,165 THE SIZE OF THIS PROTRUSION, 1430 01:12:16,165 --> 01:12:17,133 DIAMETER EQUIVALENT TO DIAMETER 1431 01:12:17,133 --> 01:12:19,669 OF A VIRUS. 1432 01:12:19,669 --> 01:12:30,213 SO, WE DECIDED TO STUDY IRSP 53 1433 01:12:31,447 --> 01:12:39,488 AND IRTKS, IN THE HIV CONTEXT. 1434 01:12:39,488 --> 01:12:43,626 THERE'S A POINTER. 1435 01:12:43,626 --> 01:12:44,727 OKAY. 1436 01:12:44,727 --> 01:12:49,532 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE VIRUS 1437 01:12:49,532 --> 01:12:56,539 WAS REDUCED, AND HAD NOTHING, A 1438 01:12:56,539 --> 01:12:59,275 CLOSE PROTEIN AND COULD FIND BY 1439 01:12:59,275 --> 01:13:01,544 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY THANKS TO 1440 01:13:01,544 --> 01:13:05,815 PHILIP THAT THE BED WAS NOT 1441 01:13:05,815 --> 01:13:10,553 COMPLETE. 1442 01:13:10,553 --> 01:13:12,855 IT WAS LIKE THIS, THE CELL WAS 1443 01:13:12,855 --> 01:13:17,560 NOT DYING, SO WE THOUGHT THAT 1444 01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,496 IRSP 53 HAD A ROLE IN ASSEMBLY, 1445 01:13:20,496 --> 01:13:22,898 TRIED TO SEE IF IT WAS WITH GAG, 1446 01:13:22,898 --> 01:13:25,534 AS YOU CAN SEE HERE IT WAS. 1447 01:13:25,534 --> 01:13:27,403 THEN WE DID DIFFERENT MUTANT OF 1448 01:13:27,403 --> 01:13:29,238 GAG AND TRIED TO IDENTIFY THE 1449 01:13:29,238 --> 01:13:32,008 DOMAIN REQUIRED FOR THIS 1450 01:13:32,008 --> 01:13:32,308 INTERACTION. 1451 01:13:32,308 --> 01:13:34,844 ACTUALLY I HAVE TO SAY SIGNAL 1452 01:13:34,844 --> 01:13:37,446 CLEAR, BUT WHAT WE CAN SEE IS 1453 01:13:37,446 --> 01:13:42,818 THAT IF WE HAVE THE HVR 1454 01:13:42,818 --> 01:13:48,424 RELATION, NOT BINDING TO THE 1455 01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:50,593 MEMBRANE, AND THE MUTATION, THE 1456 01:13:50,593 --> 01:13:50,927 INTERACTION. 1457 01:13:50,927 --> 01:13:55,331 IN OUR OPINION THIS INTERACTION 1458 01:13:55,331 --> 01:14:01,237 BETWEEN GAG AND IRSP 53 OCCUR AT 1459 01:14:01,237 --> 01:14:04,874 THE CELL MEMBRANE, AND WE REDUCE 1460 01:14:04,874 --> 01:14:12,214 A LITTLE BIT THIS INTERACTION SO 1461 01:14:12,214 --> 01:14:16,686 EITHER WAY, EITHER WE PULL THE 1462 01:14:16,686 --> 01:14:18,120 HYPOTHESIS IT OCCURS BEFORE BUT 1463 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:19,422 HAVE NOT PROVEN THAT SO WE 1464 01:14:19,422 --> 01:14:24,126 CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT. 1465 01:14:24,126 --> 01:14:29,632 THEN IF IRSP 53 WAS REQUIRED TO 1466 01:14:29,632 --> 01:14:33,903 THE SITE, WE USED MICROSCOPY, SO 1467 01:14:33,903 --> 01:14:39,275 THEN WE EXPRESSED THE GAG 1468 01:14:39,275 --> 01:14:41,243 PROTEIN THAT IS ABLE TO BRING, 1469 01:14:41,243 --> 01:14:44,080 AND YOU HAVE ONLY THE PLASMA 1470 01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:45,848 MEMBRANE UNDERNEATH THAT YOU CAN 1471 01:14:45,848 --> 01:14:52,722 SEE HERE. 1472 01:14:52,722 --> 01:14:53,956 FROM BLINKING, RESOLUTION 1473 01:14:53,956 --> 01:14:56,559 20-NANOMETER, PLATFORM IN GREEN. 1474 01:14:56,559 --> 01:15:03,032 WE CAN COME WITH THE ANTIBODY 1475 01:15:03,032 --> 01:15:05,768 LABELING IRSP 53 AND COMPARE 1476 01:15:05,768 --> 01:15:08,371 SIGNALING DIFFERENCE TO THE 1477 01:15:08,371 --> 01:15:10,940 BUDDING SITE. 1478 01:15:10,940 --> 01:15:14,210 THANKS TO CYRIL, AND HIS 1479 01:15:14,210 --> 01:15:15,411 WORKFLOW. 1480 01:15:15,411 --> 01:15:24,420 SO WE COULD DATA MINE THE CENTER 1481 01:15:24,420 --> 01:15:30,993 AND DISTANCE OF 300-NANOMETER, 1482 01:15:30,993 --> 01:15:35,931 FOR IRSP 53, INDEED IT IS 1483 01:15:35,931 --> 01:15:41,837 CLOSELY RELATED TO GAG ASSEMBLY 1484 01:15:41,837 --> 01:15:47,076 SIDE, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE, AND 1485 01:15:47,076 --> 01:15:55,418 ACTUALLY IT SEEMS TO SURROUNDING 1486 01:15:55,418 --> 01:15:58,154 THE ASSEMBLY BUDDING SITE, HAVE 1487 01:15:58,154 --> 01:15:59,455 THIS PATTERN. 1488 01:15:59,455 --> 01:16:03,058 SOME DON'T HAVE IT. 1489 01:16:03,058 --> 01:16:05,594 IT'S COMPLICATED SO WE BELIEVE 1490 01:16:05,594 --> 01:16:10,266 THAT THE TOP, THERE'S A TOP 1491 01:16:10,266 --> 01:16:11,767 RECRUITMENT OF IRSP 53 TO THE 1492 01:16:11,767 --> 01:16:22,311 BUDDING SITE AND DON'T KNOW THE 1493 01:16:23,279 --> 01:16:25,181 CORRELATION WITH THE PROTEIN. 1494 01:16:25,181 --> 01:16:29,985 WANTED IT FLOW IF IRSP 53 HAS 1495 01:16:29,985 --> 01:16:33,255 ANY ROLE IN GAG TO MEMBRANE 1496 01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:33,489 BINDING. 1497 01:16:33,489 --> 01:16:44,033 WE SET UP IN VITRO MODEL, WE HAD 1498 01:16:44,266 --> 01:16:48,237 LABEL WITH FLUEROSOL, GOOD 1499 01:16:48,237 --> 01:16:54,944 CODING IN P2, IRSP 53-I-BAR 1500 01:16:54,944 --> 01:16:59,782 DOMAIN, TO SEE MEMBRANE BINDING. 1501 01:16:59,782 --> 01:17:01,650 SO HERE OUR RESULT. 1502 01:17:01,650 --> 01:17:08,357 WE SHOW WHEN WE HAVE GAG, EVEN 1503 01:17:08,357 --> 01:17:13,062 IF CONTAIN P2, THERE'S NO MATCH 1504 01:17:13,062 --> 01:17:14,797 GAG BINDING. 1505 01:17:14,797 --> 01:17:25,241 IF YOU ADD THE I-BAR DOMAIN, WE 1506 01:17:25,241 --> 01:17:30,946 BELIEVE THE TWO PROTEINS WITH 1507 01:17:30,946 --> 01:17:31,380 INTERCONNECTED. 1508 01:17:31,380 --> 01:17:36,085 AND WE DID A MOVIE ON THAT. 1509 01:17:36,085 --> 01:17:44,460 SO HERE WE CAN SEE THE MEMBRANE. 1510 01:17:44,460 --> 01:17:46,595 IRSP53 I-BAR, AND IF YOU PUT BAG 1511 01:17:46,595 --> 01:17:49,532 ON IT, YOU CAN SEE THAT GAG 1512 01:17:49,532 --> 01:17:55,004 PREFERS TO BIND WHERE YOU HAVE 1513 01:17:55,004 --> 01:18:00,709 THE IRSP53 IN PINK. 1514 01:18:00,709 --> 01:18:03,879 GAG PROTEIN LOCATE EXACTLY AT 1515 01:18:03,879 --> 01:18:05,848 THE TIP. 1516 01:18:05,848 --> 01:18:09,218 SO TWO PROTEIN ARE CERTAINLY 1517 01:18:09,218 --> 01:18:12,855 LINKED TOGETHER, AND WE TRIED TO 1518 01:18:12,855 --> 01:18:19,428 CONTINUE TO UNDERSTAND THIS 1519 01:18:19,428 --> 01:18:21,063 MOLECULAR PATHWAY. 1520 01:18:21,063 --> 01:18:25,434 THEN WE WANTED TO KNOW IF IT 1521 01:18:25,434 --> 01:18:28,504 COULD BE INCORPORATED IN GAG, 1522 01:18:28,504 --> 01:18:36,712 AND WE DID THAT WITH IRSP 53, 1523 01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:41,784 GFP, OR DOMAIN, OR PH-GFP. 1524 01:18:41,784 --> 01:18:45,588 YOU CAN SEE 53 IS THE MOST 1525 01:18:45,588 --> 01:18:49,491 INCORPORATED PROTEIN, AND COULD 1526 01:18:49,491 --> 01:18:52,394 FIND SOME IN THE HIV VIRUS BUT 1527 01:18:52,394 --> 01:18:56,899 VERY FEW IN HIV VIRUS SO MAYBE 1528 01:18:56,899 --> 01:18:58,200 THERE'S ANOTHER REGULATION HERE 1529 01:18:58,200 --> 01:19:05,541 THAT ALLOWS ITS JOB AT ONE POINT 1530 01:19:05,541 --> 01:19:11,413 BUT THERE IS A REGULATION WE 1531 01:19:11,413 --> 01:19:12,648 DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND TODAY. 1532 01:19:12,648 --> 01:19:19,622 WE FINISH WITH THE WORK OF A 1533 01:19:19,622 --> 01:19:20,723 TALENTED PERSON, RAYANE DIBSY, 1534 01:19:20,723 --> 01:19:23,859 NOW IN POSTDOC TRAINING AT 1535 01:19:23,859 --> 01:19:24,460 PASTEUR INSTITUTE. 1536 01:19:24,460 --> 01:19:28,797 IF YOU IMAGINE THIS PATHWAY IN 1537 01:19:28,797 --> 01:19:39,341 THE CELL, VERY USEFUL, IF GAG 1538 01:19:39,341 --> 01:19:41,410 INTERACT WITH P53 YOU WILL 1539 01:19:41,410 --> 01:19:46,415 INTERFERE WITH THIS PATHWAY, 1540 01:19:46,415 --> 01:19:49,852 THERE'S TWO POSSIBILITIES. 1541 01:19:49,852 --> 01:19:53,455 WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY THE 1542 01:19:53,455 --> 01:19:54,857 CHOLINERGIC PATHWAY ACTIVATION, 1543 01:19:54,857 --> 01:19:58,894 BUT WE TRY MIMIC IF WE BLOCK THE 1544 01:19:58,894 --> 01:20:03,065 PATHWAY AT THE END OF THIS 1545 01:20:03,065 --> 01:20:04,600 SIGNALING, WHAT HAPPEN? 1546 01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:08,971 SO FOR THAT WE USE CK-666, THAT 1547 01:20:08,971 --> 01:20:14,009 BLOCK UP TO THREE COMPLEX. 1548 01:20:14,009 --> 01:20:16,312 WHEN DO YOU THAT, IT IS LESS 1549 01:20:16,312 --> 01:20:16,512 THAN. 1550 01:20:16,512 --> 01:20:20,316 WHEN YOU DO THAT IN T CELL WE 1551 01:20:20,316 --> 01:20:25,721 SEE THAT AT CERTAIN POINT, WE 1552 01:20:25,721 --> 01:20:27,456 HAVE A STRONG INCREASE IN 1553 01:20:27,456 --> 01:20:35,230 RELEASE, SAYING IF YOU HAVE LESS 1554 01:20:35,230 --> 01:20:36,765 DENSE ACTING, AND ANOTHER DRUG 1555 01:20:36,765 --> 01:20:38,867 WOULD NOT HAVE THIS EFFECT, 1556 01:20:38,867 --> 01:20:41,136 TRIED TO CHARACTERIZE THAT. 1557 01:20:41,136 --> 01:20:44,873 SO WE SHOW THAT JURKAT T CELL, 1558 01:20:44,873 --> 01:20:55,517 PRIMARY T CELL, EACH TIME HAVE 1559 01:20:55,517 --> 01:20:58,787 INCREASE. 1560 01:20:58,787 --> 01:21:03,025 WE HAVE INCREASING RELEASE. 1561 01:21:03,025 --> 01:21:06,662 AND THEN TRIED TO SEE IF IT WAS 1562 01:21:06,662 --> 01:21:10,466 INCREASE IN THE PLATFORM, SO WE 1563 01:21:10,466 --> 01:21:16,071 APPLIED THE SAME STORM/TIRF 1564 01:21:16,071 --> 01:21:17,372 MICROSCOPY DEVICE. 1565 01:21:17,372 --> 01:21:26,582 FIRST YOU CAN SEE T CELL HAVE 1566 01:21:26,582 --> 01:21:28,650 LESS DENSE ACTIN. 1567 01:21:28,650 --> 01:21:30,285 YOU CAN SEE THE CLUSTER 1568 01:21:30,285 --> 01:21:34,123 INDIVIDUAL PLATFORM WE CAN SEE 1569 01:21:34,123 --> 01:21:36,692 THAT WE HAVE INCREASE IN NUMBER 1570 01:21:36,692 --> 01:21:38,093 OF PLATFORM. 1571 01:21:38,093 --> 01:21:45,300 AND THEN IF WE RELATE TO THE 1572 01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:47,369 MESH WORK OF ACTIN WE HAVE A 1573 01:21:47,369 --> 01:21:52,508 NUMBER OF CLUSTER FROM ASSEMBLY 1574 01:21:52,508 --> 01:21:58,447 INCREASE FOR NUMBER OF ERROR. 1575 01:21:58,447 --> 01:22:01,183 GAG CAN ACCESS BETTER P2, BETTER 1576 01:22:01,183 --> 01:22:04,019 MEMBRANE, YOU CAN HAVE BETTER 1577 01:22:04,019 --> 01:22:04,553 ASSEMBLY. 1578 01:22:04,553 --> 01:22:08,857 WE TRY TO MIMIC THAT IN VITRO. 1579 01:22:08,857 --> 01:22:14,463 SO THAT WE TOOK OUR BIOLIMITED 1580 01:22:14,463 --> 01:22:18,267 MEMBRANE WITH M1 AND PUT 1581 01:22:18,267 --> 01:22:19,501 DIFFERENT ACTING MESHWORK 1582 01:22:19,501 --> 01:22:21,003 DENSITY OF SURFACE OF MEMBRANE 1583 01:22:21,003 --> 01:22:23,238 AND LOOK AT P2 DEFICIENT. 1584 01:22:23,238 --> 01:22:28,043 WHAT WE OBSERVE P2 DEFICIENT WAS 1585 01:22:28,043 --> 01:22:34,082 DECREASING, AND WHAT HAPPENS 1586 01:22:34,082 --> 01:22:34,283 AGAIN. 1587 01:22:34,283 --> 01:22:37,352 IF WE DECREASE THE DYNAMIC IN 1588 01:22:37,352 --> 01:22:39,421 THE MEMBRANE GAG DIFFUSION DROPS 1589 01:22:39,421 --> 01:22:45,227 SO IF YOU HAVE LESS ACTIN YOU 1590 01:22:45,227 --> 01:22:48,297 HAVE MORE ACCESS TO P2 1591 01:22:48,297 --> 01:22:50,265 DIFFUSION, NUCLEATION OF GAG TO 1592 01:22:50,265 --> 01:22:54,636 MAKE A PARTICULAR ASSEMBLY WOULD 1593 01:22:54,636 --> 01:22:55,637 REQUIRE THAT. 1594 01:22:55,637 --> 01:23:04,813 SO THEN WE WANTED TO KNOW IF ANY 1595 01:23:04,813 --> 01:23:06,014 CELLULAR INHIBITOR OF ARP2/3 1596 01:23:06,014 --> 01:23:07,683 WOULD BE INVOLVED, WE TRIED SOME 1597 01:23:07,683 --> 01:23:16,091 AND COULD SEE HERE THAT WE HAD 1598 01:23:16,091 --> 01:23:21,029 GAG WITH SOME, ONE WAS ARPIN, 1599 01:23:21,029 --> 01:23:23,532 AND WE CAN SEE THIS COMPUTATION 1600 01:23:23,532 --> 01:23:28,337 WAS NOT EXISTING IF WE TAKE A 1601 01:23:28,337 --> 01:23:31,840 MINUS GAG NOT BINDING MEMBRANE 1602 01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:33,375 SO WE BELIEVE ARPIN WOULD BE 1603 01:23:33,375 --> 01:23:35,244 RECRUITED BY THE GAG PROTEIN OR 1604 01:23:35,244 --> 01:23:38,213 TRAPPED BY THE GAG PROTEIN, IN 1605 01:23:38,213 --> 01:23:42,918 ORDER TO HAVE LESS BRANCH 1606 01:23:42,918 --> 01:23:43,619 ACTIVITY. 1607 01:23:43,619 --> 01:23:45,320 SO WE CONFUSE THIS 1608 01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:46,955 IMMUNOPRECIPITATION BETWEEN GAG 1609 01:23:46,955 --> 01:23:52,761 AND ARPIN. 1610 01:23:52,761 --> 01:24:00,202 WHEN WE LOWER EXPRESSION, WE 1611 01:24:00,202 --> 01:24:02,070 LOWER HIV PARTICULAR, AND 1612 01:24:02,070 --> 01:24:04,573 FINALLY WE COULD SEE THAT WHEN 1613 01:24:04,573 --> 01:24:08,744 GAG IS EXPRESSED IN T CELL WE 1614 01:24:08,744 --> 01:24:11,013 INCREASE ARPIN IN THE MEMBRANE 1615 01:24:11,013 --> 01:24:13,215 FACTION, AND WE INCREASE ARPIN 1616 01:24:13,215 --> 01:24:15,517 AT THE T CELL SURFACE, AS YOU 1617 01:24:15,517 --> 01:24:19,254 CAN SEE HERE BY MICROSCOPY. 1618 01:24:19,254 --> 01:24:21,223 WE THINK THAT GAG IS ABOUT TO 1619 01:24:21,223 --> 01:24:24,493 ACTIVATE SOME OF THE ACTIN 1620 01:24:24,493 --> 01:24:28,330 PATHWAYS TO INHIBIT THE MESHWORK 1621 01:24:28,330 --> 01:24:31,199 TO HAVE MORE PARTICULAR 1622 01:24:31,199 --> 01:24:31,466 ASSEMBLY. 1623 01:24:31,466 --> 01:24:40,842 SO NOW WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT ARE 1624 01:24:40,842 --> 01:24:46,281 THE RECRUITMENT INVOLVING 1625 01:24:46,281 --> 01:24:46,982 POLYMERIZATION, THE 1626 01:24:46,982 --> 01:24:52,988 SPATIOCOMPONENTS, AND HOPEFULLY 1627 01:24:52,988 --> 01:24:55,524 NEXT YEAR. 1628 01:24:55,524 --> 01:24:56,758 HERE IS CONCLUSION, CONVINCE YOU 1629 01:24:56,758 --> 01:25:01,630 MANY OF US IN THE ROOM THAT WE 1630 01:25:01,630 --> 01:25:04,366 SHARE THE INTERESTS IN 1631 01:25:04,366 --> 01:25:08,203 UNDERSTANDING THE LIPID AND ML 1632 01:25:08,203 --> 01:25:09,871 RELATIONSHIP TO MAKE PARTICLES 1633 01:25:09,871 --> 01:25:11,707 OF THE CELL MEMBRANE IN 1634 01:25:11,707 --> 01:25:15,877 DIFFERENT CELL TYPE, DIFFERENT 1635 01:25:15,877 --> 01:25:17,179 SYSTEM, DIFFERENT GAG. 1636 01:25:17,179 --> 01:25:21,016 I WANT TO THANK MY TEAM BECAUSE 1637 01:25:21,016 --> 01:25:22,117 WITHOUT THEM NOTHING IS 1638 01:25:22,117 --> 01:25:25,821 POSSIBLE, BECAUSE I WISH I COULD 1639 01:25:25,821 --> 01:25:28,557 STILL DO EXPERIMENTS. 1640 01:25:28,557 --> 01:25:37,432 BUT ACTUALLY THE LAST EXPERIMENT 1641 01:25:37,432 --> 01:25:39,167 WAS THE MICROSCOPY, WE HAVE MORE 1642 01:25:39,167 --> 01:25:43,338 STUDENTS AT THAT TIME, SO WE DID 1643 01:25:43,338 --> 01:25:44,439 ALL THE EXPERIMENTS. 1644 01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:45,974 BUT TEN YEARS AGO NOW. 1645 01:25:45,974 --> 01:25:46,808 EIGHT YEARS AGO. 1646 01:25:46,808 --> 01:25:52,314 I WANT TO THANK THE SPONSORS AND 1647 01:25:52,314 --> 01:25:54,816 PLEASE COME AND VISIT 1648 01:25:54,816 --> 01:25:58,887 MONTPELLIER, A CITY BY THE SEA. 1649 01:25:58,887 --> 01:26:02,591 I WANT TO FINISH TO THANK ALAN 1650 01:26:02,591 --> 01:26:06,528 FOR ALL HIS YEARS OF EXCELLENT 1651 01:26:06,528 --> 01:26:09,698 SCIENCE, FOR FRIENDSHIP, AND 1652 01:26:09,698 --> 01:26:11,066 NON-SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION ON 1653 01:26:11,066 --> 01:26:14,836 MUSIC, ART, AND THIS WAS A 1654 01:26:14,836 --> 01:26:18,106 SLIDE, ALSO I REMIND YOU OF 1655 01:26:18,106 --> 01:26:20,308 THIS. 1656 01:26:20,308 --> 01:26:26,348 1657 01:26:26,348 --> 01:26:33,255 1658 01:26:33,255 --> 01:26:34,689 YES, MARK. 1659 01:26:34,689 --> 01:26:39,494 >> ALL THIS WAY FROM 1660 01:26:39,494 --> 01:26:40,595 MONTPELLIER. 1661 01:26:40,595 --> 01:26:45,634 YOU MAY GO BACK TO (INAUDIBLE). 1662 01:26:45,634 --> 01:26:53,041 >> I KNOW YOU TRY TO CONVINCE 1663 01:26:53,041 --> 01:26:53,809 ME. 1664 01:26:53,809 --> 01:26:57,646 >> ALL THE GAMMA RETROVIRUSES IN 1665 01:26:57,646 --> 01:27:00,615 THE HUMAN GENOME INCLUDING GAG 1666 01:27:00,615 --> 01:27:03,552 PROTEIN HAVE NOW HUGE TREND ON 1667 01:27:03,552 --> 01:27:07,522 HOW GAG IS INVOLVED IN THE 1668 01:27:07,522 --> 01:27:12,694 FORMATION OF VESICLES. 1669 01:27:12,694 --> 01:27:13,428 >> YEAH. 1670 01:27:13,428 --> 01:27:14,429 >> THAT'S WONDERFUL. 1671 01:27:14,429 --> 01:27:18,433 >> THE OTHER ONE, SO AS 1672 01:27:18,433 --> 01:27:23,405 CHRISTINE -- (INAUDIBLE) ALL 1673 01:27:23,405 --> 01:27:27,776 THOSE RECEPTORS USED BY 1674 01:27:27,776 --> 01:27:29,811 ENVELOPES, LET'S SAY 1675 01:27:29,811 --> 01:27:30,512 TRANSPORTERS, REGULATE PATHWAYS, 1676 01:27:30,512 --> 01:27:35,650 I THINK THERE'S A WAY TO 1677 01:27:35,650 --> 01:27:37,753 ASSEMBLE IN THE HUMAN CELL ON 1678 01:27:37,753 --> 01:27:42,758 THE ONE HAND THE EQUIVALENT OF 1679 01:27:42,758 --> 01:27:47,362 ENVELOPES THAT WOULD BIND 1680 01:27:47,362 --> 01:27:50,198 TRANSPORTERS AND GAG, THE GAG 1681 01:27:50,198 --> 01:27:50,465 FORMATION. 1682 01:27:50,465 --> 01:27:51,633 >> YES, THAT'S ONE SIDE. 1683 01:27:51,633 --> 01:27:57,205 THE OTHER SIDE I WOULD SAY, 1684 01:27:57,205 --> 01:28:02,577 WE'RE SHOWING CERTAIN 1685 01:28:02,577 --> 01:28:03,678 POPULATIONS OF EXTRACELLULAR 1686 01:28:03,678 --> 01:28:14,089 VESICLES, AND THERE'S A 1687 01:28:17,959 --> 01:28:25,000 BEAUTIFUL WORK, THEY ARE 1688 01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:25,333 INTERACTING. 1689 01:28:25,333 --> 01:28:27,536 TO SEND DISTANT SIGNAL FOR 1690 01:28:27,536 --> 01:28:32,007 MEMORY, SO, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, A 1691 01:28:32,007 --> 01:28:34,309 VERY OPEN PERIOD. 1692 01:28:34,309 --> 01:28:36,511 I LIKE THE IDEA OF RETROVIRUSES 1693 01:28:36,511 --> 01:28:39,881 USING THAT PATHWAY TO GET OUT 1694 01:28:39,881 --> 01:28:44,186 AND TO SEND A SIGNAL, 1695 01:28:44,186 --> 01:28:54,729 TRANSPORTATION, TO LONG DISTANCE 1696 01:29:13,715 --> 01:29:23,892 IN FORMATION. 1697 01:29:29,264 --> 01:29:32,133 >> NEXT SPEAKER IS RIGHT NOW IN 1698 01:29:32,133 --> 01:29:33,335 URUGUAY, I BELIEVE. 1699 01:29:33,335 --> 01:29:37,172 HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE BUT 1700 01:29:37,172 --> 01:29:40,208 UNITED AIRLINES DIDN'T 1701 01:29:40,208 --> 01:29:40,475 COOPERATE. 1702 01:29:40,475 --> 01:29:45,146 NO, SORRY, SORRY. 1703 01:29:45,146 --> 01:29:51,853 NEXT SPEAKER IS HERE. 1704 01:29:51,853 --> 01:29:52,520 IT'S KARIN MUSIER-FORSYTH, A 1705 01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:56,558 NAME FAMILIAR TO MOST OF US I'M 1706 01:29:56,558 --> 01:29:58,693 SURE. 1707 01:29:58,693 --> 01:30:04,566 I WILL JUST SAY THAT KARIN WAS 1708 01:30:04,566 --> 01:30:06,401 TRAINED IN tRNA BIOCHEMISTRY 1709 01:30:06,401 --> 01:30:10,338 AND INTERACTION OF tRNAs 1710 01:30:10,338 --> 01:30:13,074 WITH CELLULAR PROTEINS. 1711 01:30:13,074 --> 01:30:16,378 AND I FIRST BECAME AWARE WITH 1712 01:30:16,378 --> 01:30:17,012 HER FIRST RETROVIRUS PAPER, I 1713 01:30:17,012 --> 01:30:24,586 THINK IT WAS THE FIRST 1714 01:30:24,586 --> 01:30:25,553 RETROVIRUS PAPER, AND IT STRUCK 1715 01:30:25,553 --> 01:30:28,523 ME FROM THE FIRST PAPER HERE IS 1716 01:30:28,523 --> 01:30:32,994 SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY INTERESTED 1717 01:30:32,994 --> 01:30:36,631 IN HOW THE VIRAL PROTEINS ARE 1718 01:30:36,631 --> 01:30:40,101 MANIPULATING THE RNAs, 1719 01:30:40,101 --> 01:30:43,838 INTERACTING WITH RNAs, IT WAS 1720 01:30:43,838 --> 01:30:46,274 A FASCINATING PAPER, AND SHE'S 1721 01:30:46,274 --> 01:30:49,444 CONTINUED TO DO FASCINATING 1722 01:30:49,444 --> 01:30:50,879 WORK, EVER SINCE. 1723 01:30:50,879 --> 01:30:52,080 WE'VE REALLY KNOWN EACH OTHER 1724 01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:54,916 QUITE A WHILE NOW, HAD A NUMBER 1725 01:30:54,916 --> 01:30:55,917 OF PAPERS TOGETHER. 1726 01:30:55,917 --> 01:31:04,559 AND TODAY SHE'S GOING TO TELL US 1727 01:31:04,559 --> 01:31:06,594 ABOUT WORK, REALLY AMAZING WORK. 1728 01:31:06,594 --> 01:31:09,597 WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, THANK YOU 1729 01:31:09,597 --> 01:31:10,799 FOR COMING, KARIN, AND THANK YOU 1730 01:31:10,799 --> 01:31:20,976 FOR BEING PART OF THIS EVENT. 1731 01:31:20,976 --> 01:31:21,977 1732 01:31:21,977 --> 01:31:23,712 >> IT'S AN HONOR AND PLEASURE TO 1733 01:31:23,712 --> 01:31:26,214 BE HERE TO CELEBRATE ALAN'S LONG 1734 01:31:26,214 --> 01:31:27,315 CAREER. 1735 01:31:27,315 --> 01:31:31,152 WE DID MEET IN 1997, MY FIRST 1736 01:31:31,152 --> 01:31:32,687 COLD SPRING HARBOR MEETING. 1737 01:31:32,687 --> 01:31:33,888 AND BASICALLY WE'VE BEEN TALKING 1738 01:31:33,888 --> 01:31:34,856 EVER SINCE. 1739 01:31:34,856 --> 01:31:40,228 AT THAT MEETING I ALSO MET 1740 01:31:40,228 --> 01:31:41,329 WEI-SHAU, STEVE AND EVERYBODY 1741 01:31:41,329 --> 01:31:43,198 HERE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE. 1742 01:31:43,198 --> 01:31:46,034 TWO YEARS LATER HAD A 1743 01:31:46,034 --> 01:31:46,334 SABBATICAL. 1744 01:31:46,334 --> 01:31:49,871 I DECIDED TO DO IT HERE AND BE 1745 01:31:49,871 --> 01:31:50,739 IMMERSED IN RETROVIROLOGY. 1746 01:31:50,739 --> 01:31:52,173 THAT'S WHAT I DID. 1747 01:31:52,173 --> 01:31:54,476 AND SO I THINK IT WAS THE FALL 1748 01:31:54,476 --> 01:31:57,312 OF 1999, I SPENT FIVE MONTHS 1749 01:31:57,312 --> 01:31:58,413 HERE, INTERACTED, MANY MEALS 1750 01:31:58,413 --> 01:32:01,249 WITH ALAN, LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS 1751 01:32:01,249 --> 01:32:05,320 WITH ALAN AND CONTINUED TO THIS 1752 01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:05,520 DAY. 1753 01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:09,791 I'M HAPPY TO TELL YOU ABOUT 1754 01:32:09,791 --> 01:32:11,459 COLLABORATION WITH WEI-SHU AND 1755 01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:15,597 HER TEAM, MY TEAM IS HERE ON THE 1756 01:32:15,597 --> 01:32:17,232 LEFT. 1757 01:32:17,232 --> 01:32:19,868 MIKE IS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, AND 1758 01:32:19,868 --> 01:32:22,170 JONATHAN WAS A TRAINEE, Ph.D. 1759 01:32:22,170 --> 01:32:26,207 WITH ME, NOW POSTDOC WITH 1760 01:32:26,207 --> 01:32:26,775 WEI-SHAU. 1761 01:32:26,775 --> 01:32:28,843 HOW DO I ADVANCE SLIDES? 1762 01:32:28,843 --> 01:32:29,144 OKAY. 1763 01:32:29,144 --> 01:32:34,082 WE ALL KNOW ALL THE CURRENT HIV 1764 01:32:34,082 --> 01:32:35,617 THERAPEUTICS ACT MAINLY ON 1765 01:32:35,617 --> 01:32:37,485 ENZYMES, WE'RE INTERESTED IN 1766 01:32:37,485 --> 01:32:45,026 EXPANDING THE RANGE OF DRUGGABLE 1767 01:32:45,026 --> 01:32:46,461 TARGETS TO RNA. 1768 01:32:46,461 --> 01:32:49,731 IT'S A TEMPLATE FOR TRANSLATION, 1769 01:32:49,731 --> 01:32:55,336 GAG AND GAGPOL, AND GENOME, SO 1770 01:32:55,336 --> 01:32:56,538 PRESUMABLY IDENTICAL MOLECULE IS 1771 01:32:56,538 --> 01:32:57,839 PACKAGED AS A DIMER. 1772 01:32:57,839 --> 01:33:00,742 WHAT'S CLEAR IN RECENT YEARS IS 1773 01:33:00,742 --> 01:33:02,110 THAT THIS DIFFERENCE IN THE 1774 01:33:02,110 --> 01:33:04,212 STATE OF THE FULL LENGTH 1775 01:33:04,212 --> 01:33:05,947 INSPLICED RNA IS DETERMINED AT 1776 01:33:05,947 --> 01:33:07,148 THE LEVEL OF TRANSCRIPTION. 1777 01:33:07,148 --> 01:33:11,419 AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT HOST 1778 01:33:11,419 --> 01:33:11,986 RNA POLYMERASE TRANSCRIBED 1779 01:33:11,986 --> 01:33:15,590 YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A MIXTURE OF 1780 01:33:15,590 --> 01:33:17,459 SPECIES, THE VIRUS ENCODES 3G, 1781 01:33:17,459 --> 01:33:20,628 YOU GET 3Gs IN A CAP, TWO, 1782 01:33:20,628 --> 01:33:22,063 ONE, A BUNCH OF MISCELLANEOUS 1783 01:33:22,063 --> 01:33:23,932 OTHER THINGS. 1784 01:33:23,932 --> 01:33:26,668 A NOBODY OF LABS HAVE SHOWN IF 1785 01:33:26,668 --> 01:33:29,404 YOU LOOK IN THE CELL THAT MOST 1786 01:33:29,404 --> 01:33:31,840 OF THE RNA IS 3G AS YOU WOULD 1787 01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:33,808 PREDICT BUT THERE'S SIGNIFICANT 1788 01:33:33,808 --> 01:33:35,910 AMOUNT OF 2G, 1G, OTHER SPECIES 1789 01:33:35,910 --> 01:33:36,678 AS WELL. 1790 01:33:36,678 --> 01:33:38,413 HOWEVER, IF YOU LOOK IN THE 1791 01:33:38,413 --> 01:33:41,249 VIRUS PARTICLE, WHAT YOU SEE IS 1792 01:33:41,249 --> 01:33:45,420 IT'S NOW ALMOST -- PREDOMINANTLY 1793 01:33:45,420 --> 01:33:48,490 1G WITH A LITTLE BIT OF 3G, 1794 01:33:48,490 --> 01:33:49,290 SELECTED MECHANISM OF PACKAGING 1795 01:33:49,290 --> 01:33:50,325 GOING ON HERE. 1796 01:33:50,325 --> 01:33:52,894 THAT'S THE BASIS OF THE PROJECT. 1797 01:33:52,894 --> 01:34:00,768 HOW ARE THE 1 Gs PACKAGES AND 1798 01:34:00,768 --> 01:34:02,036 ARE 3Gs PREFERENTIALLY 1799 01:34:02,036 --> 01:34:02,370 TRANSLATED. 1800 01:34:02,370 --> 01:34:04,472 I NEED TO INTRODUCE OR REMIND 1801 01:34:04,472 --> 01:34:07,308 YOU OF WHAT THE IMPORTANT RNA 1802 01:34:07,308 --> 01:34:09,177 STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE FIVE 1803 01:34:09,177 --> 01:34:11,779 PRIME INTRANSLATED REGION. 1804 01:34:11,779 --> 01:34:15,416 WE SAW THESE STRUCTURES, HERE IS 1805 01:34:15,416 --> 01:34:18,686 THE TAR/POLY-A, TAR LOOP, POLY-A 1806 01:34:18,686 --> 01:34:20,121 LOOP, PRIMER BINDING SITE 1807 01:34:20,121 --> 01:34:21,890 DOMAIN. 1808 01:34:21,890 --> 01:34:27,762 AND THEN THIS IS THE SITE 1809 01:34:27,762 --> 01:34:34,602 PACKAGING SIGNAL WITH THE 1810 01:34:34,602 --> 01:34:37,171 PALINDROMIC LOOP, IMPORTANT FOR 1811 01:34:37,171 --> 01:34:42,010 INITIATING DIMERIZATION, AND A 1812 01:34:42,010 --> 01:34:43,211 NUMBER OF SINGLE-STRANDED GENES 1813 01:34:43,211 --> 01:34:45,413 ARE IMPORTANT FOR BINDING. 1814 01:34:45,413 --> 01:34:46,948 WHAT I'LL FOCUS ON TODAY IS 1815 01:34:46,948 --> 01:34:51,119 WHERE YOU HAVE THE VARIABLE 1816 01:34:51,119 --> 01:34:53,755 NUMBER, HOW THEY DETERMINE THE 1817 01:34:53,755 --> 01:34:56,491 STATE OF THIS GENOMIC RNA. 1818 01:34:56,491 --> 01:35:00,628 AND AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, MANY 1819 01:35:00,628 --> 01:35:03,264 FIVE PRIME UNTRANSLATED REGIONS 1820 01:35:03,264 --> 01:35:05,233 OF HUMAN GENES, ALL KINDS OF 1821 01:35:05,233 --> 01:35:15,643 GENES, ARE REGULATED BY 1822 01:35:16,277 --> 01:35:17,512 SO-CALLED RIBAL STRICTURES, THIS 1823 01:35:17,512 --> 01:35:19,514 EXPRESSION WOULD OCCUR. 1824 01:35:19,514 --> 01:35:22,584 HOWEVER, IF A LIGAND BINDS THAT 1825 01:35:22,584 --> 01:35:23,818 CAN CHANGE THE CONFIRMATIONAL 1826 01:35:23,818 --> 01:35:26,521 STATE, TURNING THE GENE OFF. 1827 01:35:26,521 --> 01:35:28,056 SO WE KNEW ABOUT THIS PARADIGM 1828 01:35:28,056 --> 01:35:30,658 AND WHAT WE WERE WONDERING IS, 1829 01:35:30,658 --> 01:35:31,759 WELL, MAYBE IT'S NOT SMALL 1830 01:35:31,759 --> 01:35:33,294 MOLECULE BINDING BUT MAYBE IT'S 1831 01:35:33,294 --> 01:35:35,163 THE NUMBER OF GENES REGULATING 1832 01:35:35,163 --> 01:35:38,099 THE CONFIRMATION OF THIS RNA. 1833 01:35:38,099 --> 01:35:40,735 AND SO THAT IF YOU HAVE 3 Gs, 1834 01:35:40,735 --> 01:35:42,604 THIS IS A CONFIRMATION OF 1835 01:35:42,604 --> 01:35:45,006 PREFERENTIAL TRANSLATION, IF YOU 1836 01:35:45,006 --> 01:35:46,341 HAVE 1G, FORMS A CONFIRMATION 1837 01:35:46,341 --> 01:35:48,076 THAT'S PREFERENTIAL TO THE 1838 01:35:48,076 --> 01:35:48,943 PACKAGING. 1839 01:35:48,943 --> 01:35:51,879 SO TO LOOK AT THIS, THIS WAS 1840 01:35:51,879 --> 01:35:54,215 PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, 1841 01:35:54,215 --> 01:35:56,718 I'M GOING TO SUMMARIZE. 1842 01:35:56,718 --> 01:35:59,354 WE PERFORMED RNA STRUCTURE 1843 01:35:59,354 --> 01:36:01,189 PRONING TECHNIQUE CALLED SHAPE, 1844 01:36:01,189 --> 01:36:03,191 AND WE RAN -- FIRST OF ALL I CAN 1845 01:36:03,191 --> 01:36:05,493 SHOW WHEN YOU TAKE THE 1G RNA 1846 01:36:05,493 --> 01:36:07,996 AND RUN IT ON A NATIVE GEL, WHAT 1847 01:36:07,996 --> 01:36:10,632 YOU SEE RIGHT AWAY IS THAT IT'S 1848 01:36:10,632 --> 01:36:11,833 MOSTLY DIMERIC SPECIES WITH A 1849 01:36:11,833 --> 01:36:13,668 LITTLE BIT OF MONOMER, BUT IF 1850 01:36:13,668 --> 01:36:17,071 YOU TAKE THE EXACT SAME 3G RNA, 1851 01:36:17,071 --> 01:36:19,040 FOLD IT UNDER THE SAME 1852 01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:20,908 CONDITIONS, WE SEE MAINLY 1853 01:36:20,908 --> 01:36:21,676 MONOMERIC SPECIES. 1854 01:36:21,676 --> 01:36:25,146 AND SO WE CUT OUT THESE BANDS 1855 01:36:25,146 --> 01:36:27,382 THROUGH GEL AND ASSOCIATED IN 1856 01:36:27,382 --> 01:36:28,883 CHEMICAL REAGENTS THAT PROBE RNA 1857 01:36:28,883 --> 01:36:32,854 STRUCTURE AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS 1858 01:36:32,854 --> 01:36:35,790 THAT THE 1G RNA, PRIMARILY 1859 01:36:35,790 --> 01:36:37,458 DIMERIC, HAS THIS SECONDARY 1860 01:36:37,458 --> 01:36:38,526 STRUCTURE FAIRLY SIMILAR TO WHAT 1861 01:36:38,526 --> 01:36:40,628 I SHOWED EARLIER. 1862 01:36:40,628 --> 01:36:43,831 YOU CAN SEE THE TAR CONFORMS, 1863 01:36:43,831 --> 01:36:45,867 POLY-A CONFORMS, YOU GET INTO 1864 01:36:45,867 --> 01:36:51,105 THE PRIMER BINDING SITE. 1865 01:36:51,105 --> 01:36:53,441 I'M CIRCLING THESE, CRITICAL FOR 1866 01:36:53,441 --> 01:36:54,542 GAG BINDING, PACKAGING RNA, 1867 01:36:54,542 --> 01:36:57,712 EXPOSED AND AVAILABLE IN STINGEL 1868 01:36:57,712 --> 01:37:04,385 STRANDED REGIONS. 1869 01:37:04,385 --> 01:37:07,889 IF YOU TAKE THE 3G RNA, WE'VE 1870 01:37:07,889 --> 01:37:09,857 ADDED TWO MORE Gs. 1871 01:37:09,857 --> 01:37:12,260 WHAT YOU'LL SEE HAPPEN IN THE 1872 01:37:12,260 --> 01:37:14,662 NEXT SLIDE THAT NEXT G IS PAIRED 1873 01:37:14,662 --> 01:37:20,902 WITH C, AND WHAT YOU GET, WHAT 1874 01:37:20,902 --> 01:37:25,740 WAS SURPRISING, COMPLETE 1875 01:37:25,740 --> 01:37:29,444 REARRANGEMENT OF THE RNA, 1876 01:37:29,444 --> 01:37:32,613 STEALING NUCLEOTIDE FROM POLY-A, 1877 01:37:32,613 --> 01:37:34,248 RESULTING IN UNFOLDINGS, DOWN 1878 01:37:34,248 --> 01:37:35,583 EXTREME INTERACTION, FURTHER 1879 01:37:35,583 --> 01:37:36,984 DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS, NOW Gs 1880 01:37:36,984 --> 01:37:39,287 WHICH WERE CLOSE TOGETHER AND 1881 01:37:39,287 --> 01:37:40,922 SINGLE-STRANDED HERE ARE NOW 1882 01:37:40,922 --> 01:37:44,425 FURTHER APART AND PARTIALLY 1883 01:37:44,425 --> 01:37:44,726 SEQUESTERED. 1884 01:37:44,726 --> 01:37:45,960 AND DIMERIZATION INITIATION SITE 1885 01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:50,898 IS NO LONGER IN A PALINDROMIC 1886 01:37:50,898 --> 01:37:51,232 LOOP. 1887 01:37:51,232 --> 01:37:55,837 THIS HELPED TO EXPLAIN WE THINK 1888 01:37:55,837 --> 01:38:00,108 WHY THIS IS FOR PACKAGING, HAS 1889 01:38:00,108 --> 01:38:02,944 EXPOSED DIS, HAS THE G BINDING 1890 01:38:02,944 --> 01:38:04,378 SITES FOR PACKAGING EXPOSED, AND 1891 01:38:04,378 --> 01:38:08,082 WHAT WE DIDN'T HAVE PREDICTED 1892 01:38:08,082 --> 01:38:13,221 INTACT POLY-A HAIRPIN. 1893 01:38:13,221 --> 01:38:15,523 THOSE ELEMENTS ARE MISSING IN 1894 01:38:15,523 --> 01:38:20,361 THE 3G RNA NOT PREFERENTIALLY 1895 01:38:20,361 --> 01:38:20,628 PACKAGED. 1896 01:38:20,628 --> 01:38:22,563 AGAIN, WE IDENTIFIED TWO SETS OF 1897 01:38:22,563 --> 01:38:27,468 MUTANTS THAT ELIMINATED SELECTED 1898 01:38:27,468 --> 01:38:31,072 1G RNA PACKAGING. 1899 01:38:31,072 --> 01:38:36,911 WE DESTABILIZED BOND OF POLY-A. 1900 01:38:36,911 --> 01:38:37,779 USE ARTIFICIALLY DESTABILIZED, 1901 01:38:37,779 --> 01:38:40,615 YOU SEE IN CONTRAST TO WILD TYPE 1902 01:38:40,615 --> 01:38:42,483 WITH THIS DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE IN 1903 01:38:42,483 --> 01:38:45,853 STRUCTURE OF THE 3G AND 1G AND 1904 01:38:45,853 --> 01:38:46,854 PREFERENTIAL PACKAGING. 1905 01:38:46,854 --> 01:38:49,524 1G RNA NOW YOU ELIMINATE THAT 1906 01:38:49,524 --> 01:38:51,292 PREFERENTIAL PACKAGING AND WHEN 1907 01:38:51,292 --> 01:38:55,096 WE PROBE THE STRUCTURE FOR 1908 01:38:55,096 --> 01:38:56,964 EXAMPLE ON THE NATIVE GEL NO 1909 01:38:56,964 --> 01:39:02,003 MATTER IF YOU HAVE 3G OR 1G, 1910 01:39:02,003 --> 01:39:04,205 THEY ALL LOOK 3G LIKE. 1911 01:39:04,205 --> 01:39:06,707 WE'VE ELIMINATED THAT STRUCTURAL 1912 01:39:06,707 --> 01:39:08,442 DIFFERENCE AND ELIMINATED 1913 01:39:08,442 --> 01:39:10,111 SELECTIVE PACKAGING. 1914 01:39:10,111 --> 01:39:12,847 ANOTHER SET HAD TWO NUCLEOSIDES 1915 01:39:12,847 --> 01:39:19,086 INSERTED, THIS GENE TO BASE PAIR 1916 01:39:19,086 --> 01:39:21,823 WITH THIS, ANY TWO NUCLEOSIDES 1917 01:39:21,823 --> 01:39:24,325 ELIMINATED SELECTED 1G PACKAGING 1918 01:39:24,325 --> 01:39:26,294 IN CELLS AND ALSO ELIMINATED 1919 01:39:26,294 --> 01:39:27,395 STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 1920 01:39:27,395 --> 01:39:27,728 RNAs. 1921 01:39:27,728 --> 01:39:30,131 NOW THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY ARE 1922 01:39:30,131 --> 01:39:36,804 1G AND THERE'S NO PREFERENTIAL 1923 01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:37,905 PACKAGING. 1924 01:39:37,905 --> 01:39:41,075 WE FOUND THAT SELECTED 1G 1925 01:39:41,075 --> 01:39:46,547 PACKAGING IS THE CONFIRMATIONAL 1926 01:39:46,547 --> 01:39:48,282 ENSEMBLES THAT HAVE DIFFERENCES, 1927 01:39:48,282 --> 01:39:52,320 IN PARTICULAR DIFFERENCES IN 1928 01:39:52,320 --> 01:39:54,422 POLY-A HAIRPIN STABILITY. 1929 01:39:54,422 --> 01:39:55,957 YOU HAVE DIS EXPOSURE, EXPOSED 1930 01:39:55,957 --> 01:39:58,893 GAG BINDING SITES, AND 1931 01:39:58,893 --> 01:40:03,931 PACKAGING, BUT IF THE POLY-I 1932 01:40:03,931 --> 01:40:05,032 HAIRPIN IS DISRUPTED 1933 01:40:05,032 --> 01:40:06,367 ARTIFICIALLY OR THROUGH 1934 01:40:06,367 --> 01:40:11,405 INTERACTION THE DIS IS 1935 01:40:11,405 --> 01:40:18,613 SEQUESTERED, DNA BINDING SITES 1936 01:40:18,613 --> 01:40:19,614 ARE SEQUESTERED. 1937 01:40:19,614 --> 01:40:21,015 GAG SHOULD BIND AND ASSOCIATE 1938 01:40:21,015 --> 01:40:24,318 WITH THE 1G RNA WHICH HAS 1939 01:40:24,318 --> 01:40:26,254 EXPOSED GAG BINDING SITE. 1940 01:40:26,254 --> 01:40:28,689 WE'VE TRIED HARD TO LOOK AT 1941 01:40:28,689 --> 01:40:29,991 DIFFERENCES IN AFFINITY, WE 1942 01:40:29,991 --> 01:40:37,431 DON'T SEE ANY DIFFERENCES.. 1943 01:40:37,431 --> 01:40:40,067 GANG IS PROMISCUOUS BINDING 1944 01:40:40,067 --> 01:40:41,168 PROTEIN, HAS PREFERENCES TO 1945 01:40:41,168 --> 01:40:42,603 SINGLE-STRANDED GENE BUT IF WE 1946 01:40:42,603 --> 01:40:44,105 LOOK AT BINDING AFFINITY WE 1947 01:40:44,105 --> 01:40:45,439 DON'T SEE DIFFERENCES. 1948 01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:48,709 WHAT WE DECIDED TO DO, WE 1949 01:40:48,709 --> 01:40:50,778 PREDICT THAT GAG WOULD ASSEMBLE 1950 01:40:50,778 --> 01:40:56,384 MORE READILY ONTO THIS RNA AND 1951 01:40:56,384 --> 01:41:03,491 SO WE USED MASS PHOTOMETRY, A 1952 01:41:03,491 --> 01:41:04,392 SOLUTION-BASED MASS MEASUREMENT 1953 01:41:04,392 --> 01:41:06,894 TECHNIQUE, YOU HAVE YOUR 1954 01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:11,465 MOLECULES IN SOLUTION, SHINE 1955 01:41:11,465 --> 01:41:14,001 INCIDENT LIGHT ON THE MOLECULE. 1956 01:41:14,001 --> 01:41:15,770 THEY WILL SCATTER THE LIGHT AS 1957 01:41:15,770 --> 01:41:17,271 THEY HIT THE GLASS SURFACE SO 1958 01:41:17,271 --> 01:41:20,041 YOU CAN MEASURE THAT SCATTERING. 1959 01:41:20,041 --> 01:41:23,744 THIS IS ALL CALIBRATED SUCH THAT 1960 01:41:23,744 --> 01:41:26,047 THE SCATTERED LIGHT IS BASICALLY 1961 01:41:26,047 --> 01:41:30,618 IN RELATION TO THE MOLECULE AND 1962 01:41:30,618 --> 01:41:33,354 CALIBRATED WITH PROTEIN RNA 1963 01:41:33,354 --> 01:41:33,621 STANDARDS. 1964 01:41:33,621 --> 01:41:35,756 YOU TAKE MOVIES, BUILD UP 1965 01:41:35,756 --> 01:41:37,725 HISTOGRAMS, CAN SEE DIFFERENT 1966 01:41:37,725 --> 01:41:39,827 SIZES OF COMPLEXES FORMING. 1967 01:41:39,827 --> 01:41:43,631 WE USED OUR 1G AND 3G RNAs, 1968 01:41:43,631 --> 01:41:46,701 WHICH WE MIMICKED BY PUTTING 2G 1969 01:41:46,701 --> 01:41:48,235 AND 4G, I FORGOT TO SAY THAT. 1970 01:41:48,235 --> 01:41:55,910 AND THAT'S WHY THIS IS LABELED 1971 01:41:55,910 --> 01:41:58,079 2G, 4G, OVERLATE MASS 1972 01:41:58,079 --> 01:42:00,615 SPECTROMETRY DATA HERE, THE 1973 01:42:00,615 --> 01:42:02,783 ORANGE -- HERE WE HAVE THE COUNT 1974 01:42:02,783 --> 01:42:05,186 VERSUS MASS, EACH PEAK IS A 1975 01:42:05,186 --> 01:42:05,953 POPULATION OF MOLECULES WITH 1976 01:42:05,953 --> 01:42:06,954 THIS MASS. 1977 01:42:06,954 --> 01:42:10,124 WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS THAT IN A 1978 01:42:10,124 --> 01:42:14,595 CASE OF THE 4G, WE SEE THE RNA 1979 01:42:14,595 --> 01:42:16,497 MONOMER, RNA DIMER, AND WE ADD 1980 01:42:16,497 --> 01:42:19,100 GAG, WE ONLY SEE A LITTLE BIT OF 1981 01:42:19,100 --> 01:42:20,001 COMPLEX FORMATION. 1982 01:42:20,001 --> 01:42:21,202 BUT UNDER THE EXACT SAME 1983 01:42:21,202 --> 01:42:23,270 CONDITIONS WHEN WE LOOK AT GAG 1984 01:42:23,270 --> 01:42:25,473 INTERACTING WITH THE 2G RNA, WE 1985 01:42:25,473 --> 01:42:29,076 AGAIN SEE THE MONOMERIC AND 1986 01:42:29,076 --> 01:42:30,511 DIMERIC RNA BUT SEE BUILDUP OF 1987 01:42:30,511 --> 01:42:36,317 GAG ON RNA WHERE WE CAN MEASURE 1988 01:42:36,317 --> 01:42:39,153 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, 6G AND 1989 01:42:39,153 --> 01:42:42,223 HIGHER ORDERS OF COMPLEXES. 1990 01:42:42,223 --> 01:42:46,260 THIS SHOWS GAG ASSEMBLES MORE 1991 01:42:46,260 --> 01:42:47,361 FAVORABLY ON 1G. 1992 01:42:47,361 --> 01:42:49,530 THE OTHER PREDICTION FROM THIS 1993 01:42:49,530 --> 01:42:53,701 EXPERIMENT IS THAT YOU -- WE SEE 1994 01:42:53,701 --> 01:42:57,238 DIFFERENCES IN POLY-A HAIRPIN 1995 01:42:57,238 --> 01:42:58,839 STABILITY APPEAR TO IMPACT 1996 01:42:58,839 --> 01:42:59,940 PACKAGING. 1997 01:42:59,940 --> 01:43:03,677 WE WANTED TO MEASURE POLY-A 1998 01:43:03,677 --> 01:43:05,112 HAIRPIN STABILITY. 1999 01:43:05,112 --> 01:43:07,948 WE USED THERMAL MELTING 2000 01:43:07,948 --> 01:43:08,916 EXPERIMENTS, WHERE WE JUST 2001 01:43:08,916 --> 01:43:10,684 LOOKED, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH 2002 01:43:10,684 --> 01:43:12,853 THESE, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE 2003 01:43:12,853 --> 01:43:15,923 ABSORBANCE AS A FUNCTION OF 2004 01:43:15,923 --> 01:43:17,591 TEMPERATURE AND GET THESE 2005 01:43:17,591 --> 01:43:18,793 CURVES, MID-POINT IS MELTING 2006 01:43:18,793 --> 01:43:20,528 TEMPERATURE, YOU CAN TAKE THE 2007 01:43:20,528 --> 01:43:21,762 FIRST DERIVATIVE OF THIS AND IN 2008 01:43:21,762 --> 01:43:23,564 THIS CASE THE PEAK IS THE 2009 01:43:23,564 --> 01:43:24,398 MELTING TEMPERATURE. 2010 01:43:24,398 --> 01:43:27,001 I'LL BE SHOWING YOU SHE'S TYPES 2011 01:43:27,001 --> 01:43:27,868 OF CURVES. 2012 01:43:27,868 --> 01:43:31,405 AND THIS IS DONE BY MICHAEL IN 2013 01:43:31,405 --> 01:43:32,606 MY LAB, UNDERGRADUATE. 2014 01:43:32,606 --> 01:43:39,180 WHAT HE LOOKED AT WAS THEY ARE 2015 01:43:39,180 --> 01:43:40,347 -- THERMAL STABILITY OF TAR. 2016 01:43:40,347 --> 01:43:42,550 IF YOU USE THE PROGRAM LIKE RNA 2017 01:43:42,550 --> 01:43:46,253 STRUCTURE TO PREDICT THE 2018 01:43:46,253 --> 01:43:47,588 DIFFERENCES IN STABILITY 2019 01:43:47,588 --> 01:43:50,891 PRE-DISTRICT THE -- PREDICT THE 2020 01:43:50,891 --> 01:43:53,394 ENERGY OF THE 4G IS MORE STABLE. 2021 01:43:53,394 --> 01:43:55,796 WE TAKE THE FIRST DERIVATIVE, 2022 01:43:55,796 --> 01:43:58,099 SLIGHT INCREASE IN STABILITY FOR 2023 01:43:58,099 --> 01:44:01,502 THE 4G WHICH HAS THAT GC PAIR. 2024 01:44:01,502 --> 01:44:07,741 WANTED TO LOOK AT TAR POLY-A, 2025 01:44:07,741 --> 01:44:11,245 HERE IS TAR. 2026 01:44:11,245 --> 01:44:13,147 POLY-A HAIRPIN, 2G AND 4G 2027 01:44:13,147 --> 01:44:13,547 VERSIONS. 2028 01:44:13,547 --> 01:44:16,016 IF YOU USE RNA STRUCTURES IT 2029 01:44:16,016 --> 01:44:17,451 DEPREDICTS IF THESE ARE EXACTLY 2030 01:44:17,451 --> 01:44:18,519 THE SAME IN STABILITY. 2031 01:44:18,519 --> 01:44:20,387 IF YOU DO THE MEASUREMENT, 2032 01:44:20,387 --> 01:44:21,922 THAT'S NOT ALL YOU SEE. 2033 01:44:21,922 --> 01:44:25,626 WE SEE A MUCH MORE STABLE 2034 01:44:25,626 --> 01:44:27,061 OVERALL PROFILE FOR 2G, AND IF 2035 01:44:27,061 --> 01:44:29,797 YOU TAKE THE DERIVATIVE YOU CAN 2036 01:44:29,797 --> 01:44:32,766 TEASE OUT DIFFERENT MELTING 2037 01:44:32,766 --> 01:44:33,868 TEMPERATURES. 2038 01:44:33,868 --> 01:44:36,270 WE SEE TWO MELTING TEMPERATURES, 2039 01:44:36,270 --> 01:44:40,407 ONE FOR TAR, ONE FOR POLY-A. 2040 01:44:40,407 --> 01:44:43,144 AGAIN THE TAR IS MORE STABLE FOR 2041 01:44:43,144 --> 01:44:44,545 THE 4G RNA. 2042 01:44:44,545 --> 01:44:48,082 BUT IN CONTRAST TO THE POLY-A 2043 01:44:48,082 --> 01:44:50,951 HAIRPIN IS MUCH LESS STABLE FOR 2044 01:44:50,951 --> 01:44:52,586 THE 4G RNA. 2045 01:44:52,586 --> 01:44:54,488 THIS IS ABOUT A 90-DEGREE 2046 01:44:54,488 --> 01:44:55,222 DIFFERENCE IN MELTING 2047 01:44:55,222 --> 01:44:55,523 TEMPERATURE. 2048 01:44:55,523 --> 01:44:57,958 IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONTEXT OF 2049 01:44:57,958 --> 01:45:02,029 THE CELL, THE GENOME, THIS IS A 2050 01:45:02,029 --> 01:45:08,903 SITUATION WHERE WE SEE SELECTIVE 2051 01:45:08,903 --> 01:45:09,603 PACKAGING. 2052 01:45:09,603 --> 01:45:12,106 AGAIN IN COLLABORATION WITH 2053 01:45:12,106 --> 01:45:17,545 WEI-SHU AND JONATHAN WE MADE 2054 01:45:17,545 --> 01:45:18,746 DIFFERENT TRANSCRIPTION START 2055 01:45:18,746 --> 01:45:23,584 SITES, MEASURED HAIR SPIN 2056 01:45:23,584 --> 01:45:23,851 STABILITY. 2057 01:45:23,851 --> 01:45:26,954 WHEN WE CHANGED TO A, COMPARED 2058 01:45:26,954 --> 01:45:32,326 TO NOT NOW 3G BUT GDA, WE SEE 2059 01:45:32,326 --> 01:45:33,961 SOME DIFFERENCES IN MELTING BUT 2060 01:45:33,961 --> 01:45:35,696 LOOK AT THE FIRST DERIVATIVE, 2061 01:45:35,696 --> 01:45:36,797 NOW THERE'S STILL A LITTLE 2062 01:45:36,797 --> 01:45:40,100 DIFFERENCE IN TAR BUT NOW THE 2063 01:45:40,100 --> 01:45:41,402 POLY-A HAIRPIN STABILITY IS 2064 01:45:41,402 --> 01:45:44,138 IDENTICAL, NO LONGER HAS THAT 2065 01:45:44,138 --> 01:45:44,471 DIFFERENCE. 2066 01:45:44,471 --> 01:45:46,974 AND WHEN JONATHAN LOOKED AT 2067 01:45:46,974 --> 01:45:48,609 PACKAGING CELLS, WHAT HE SAW IS 2068 01:45:48,609 --> 01:45:50,844 NO PREFERENTIAL PACKAGING OF ANY 2069 01:45:50,844 --> 01:45:53,013 OF THESE RNAs, ESPECIALLY NOT 2070 01:45:53,013 --> 01:45:55,549 OF THE 1A OR 2A. 2071 01:45:55,549 --> 01:46:00,588 AND SO BUT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED 2072 01:46:00,588 --> 01:46:02,122 ALSO A COMPENSATORY MUTATION, 2073 01:46:02,122 --> 01:46:04,391 BASICALLY IF YOU HAVE THE SAME 2074 01:46:04,391 --> 01:46:08,596 VARIANTS THAT NOW YOU INCLUDE AN 2075 01:46:08,596 --> 01:46:09,563 ADDITIONAL C57 MUTATION, NOW 2076 01:46:09,563 --> 01:46:11,098 WHEN YOU MEASURE MELTING 2077 01:46:11,098 --> 01:46:13,400 TEMPERATURE OF THE TAR POLY A 2078 01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:17,338 YOU SEE WE'VE RESTORED 2079 01:46:17,338 --> 01:46:18,973 DIFFERENCES IN POLY-A HAIRPIN 2080 01:46:18,973 --> 01:46:20,741 STABILITY AND JONATHAN MEASURES 2081 01:46:20,741 --> 01:46:21,175 STABILITY. 2082 01:46:21,175 --> 01:46:22,710 AGAIN, THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH 2083 01:46:22,710 --> 01:46:30,918 THE DIFFERENCES IN POLY-A 2084 01:46:30,918 --> 01:46:33,520 HAIRPIN STABILITY. 2085 01:46:33,520 --> 01:46:35,055 WHAT ABOUT TRANSLATION? 2086 01:46:35,055 --> 01:46:38,125 WE UNDERSTAND PACKAGING WELL, 2087 01:46:38,125 --> 01:46:39,893 WHAT ABOUT TRANSLATION? 2088 01:46:39,893 --> 01:46:41,729 WE PERFORMED IN VITRO AND 2089 01:46:41,729 --> 01:46:42,496 CELL-BASED STUDIES TO LOOK AT 2090 01:46:42,496 --> 01:46:43,264 THIS. 2091 01:46:43,264 --> 01:46:45,666 FOR THE IN VITRO STUDIES WE MADE 2092 01:46:45,666 --> 01:46:48,502 A REPORTER CONSTRUCT, WHICH HAD 2093 01:46:48,502 --> 01:46:52,673 THE FIVE PRIMES UNTRANSLATED 2094 01:46:52,673 --> 01:46:59,146 REGION, A LITTLE BIT OF GAG, AND 2095 01:46:59,146 --> 01:46:59,713 DOWNSTREAM LUCIFERASE GENE, 2096 01:46:59,713 --> 01:47:02,182 TRANSCRIBED IN THE PRESENCE OF 2097 01:47:02,182 --> 01:47:04,385 AUTHENTIC CAP ANALOG, GET BE CAP 2098 01:47:04,385 --> 01:47:04,818 RNA. 2099 01:47:04,818 --> 01:47:06,353 WE TAKE THESE RNAs AND PUT 2100 01:47:06,353 --> 01:47:12,426 THEM INTO IN VITRO TRANSLATION, 2101 01:47:12,426 --> 01:47:14,495 AND LOOK AT THE READOUT. 2102 01:47:14,495 --> 01:47:20,267 BASED ON THE READOUT WE CAN SEE 2103 01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:22,469 IN A CAP-DEPENDENT MANNER, WE 2104 01:47:22,469 --> 01:47:24,838 SEE GREATER TRANSLATION WITH THE 2105 01:47:24,838 --> 01:47:28,609 CAP 3G CONSTRUCT OVER THE CAP 1G 2106 01:47:28,609 --> 01:47:29,043 CONSTRUCT. 2107 01:47:29,043 --> 01:47:31,011 AND SO THIS IS -- THIS WAS 2108 01:47:31,011 --> 01:47:33,747 EXCITING, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE 2109 01:47:33,747 --> 01:47:36,150 SURE -- NOW WE WANT TO TEST OUR 2110 01:47:36,150 --> 01:47:37,484 MUTANTS IN THE SAME SYSTEM. 2111 01:47:37,484 --> 01:47:40,421 HERE AGAIN IS WHAT I JUST SHOWED 2112 01:47:40,421 --> 01:47:42,623 YOU, DIFFERENCE IN READOUT 2113 01:47:42,623 --> 01:47:44,558 BETWEEN THE 1G AND 3G WILD TYPE. 2114 01:47:44,558 --> 01:47:47,928 AND AGAIN YOU CAN SEE THE 2115 01:47:47,928 --> 01:47:49,730 DIFFERENCE IN STRUCTURES ON THE 2116 01:47:49,730 --> 01:47:49,997 GEL. 2117 01:47:49,997 --> 01:47:52,800 IF WE LOOK AT MELTED DIS 2118 01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:54,668 VARIANT, THIS DOES NOT DIMERIZE 2119 01:47:54,668 --> 01:47:56,970 AS EFFICIENTLY BUT HOPEFULLY 2120 01:47:56,970 --> 01:47:58,072 YOU'LL NOTICE CONFIRMATIONAL 2121 01:47:58,072 --> 01:48:03,410 DIFFERENCES IN THE MONOMERS AND 2122 01:48:03,410 --> 01:48:07,381 WITH STILL SEE WE RETRAIN 2123 01:48:07,381 --> 01:48:09,049 PREFERENTIAL TRANSLATION OF 3G 2124 01:48:09,049 --> 01:48:09,583 RNA. 2125 01:48:09,583 --> 01:48:11,985 WE LOOK AT THE MUTANTS I TOLD 2126 01:48:11,985 --> 01:48:15,322 YOU ABOUT EARLIER, SO WHAT WE 2127 01:48:15,322 --> 01:48:18,926 CALL THE GU OR ADD-GG, NOW 2128 01:48:18,926 --> 01:48:19,493 ELIMINATE THE STRUCTURAL 2129 01:48:19,493 --> 01:48:22,096 DIFFERENCES AS YOU CAN SEE ON 2130 01:48:22,096 --> 01:48:25,933 THE NATIVE GEL BETWEEN 1G AND 3G 2131 01:48:25,933 --> 01:48:26,934 REELIMINATE TRANSLATIONAL 2132 01:48:26,934 --> 01:48:27,901 DIFFERENCES, NOW TRANSLATED 2133 01:48:27,901 --> 01:48:30,738 EQUALLY EFFICIENTLY IN THIS IN 2134 01:48:30,738 --> 01:48:33,507 VITRO ASSAY. 2135 01:48:33,507 --> 01:48:35,209 WHAT ABOUT IN CELLS? 2136 01:48:35,209 --> 01:48:39,279 I WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY 2137 01:48:39,279 --> 01:48:40,981 TRANSLATION HAPPENS, YOU'LL BE 2138 01:48:40,981 --> 01:48:47,254 SEEING SOME LABELS ON THE GEL, 2139 01:48:47,254 --> 01:48:52,526 SMALL RIBOSOME SCANS, AUG START 2140 01:48:52,526 --> 01:48:56,330 CODON, LARGE SUBUNIT JOINS, YOU 2141 01:48:56,330 --> 01:48:57,765 GET MONOSOMES, ELONGATION 2142 01:48:57,765 --> 01:48:58,031 CONFIDENT. 2143 01:48:58,031 --> 01:49:03,237 YOU WILL START BUILDING UP AS 2144 01:49:03,237 --> 01:49:05,639 TRANSLATION OCCURS LIGHT 2145 01:49:05,639 --> 01:49:06,740 POLYSOMES, TRANSLATING mRNAs 2146 01:49:06,740 --> 01:49:10,244 WILL HAVE MEDIUM AND HEAVY 2147 01:49:10,244 --> 01:49:15,149 POLYSOMES BUILDING ON THE 2148 01:49:15,149 --> 01:49:15,816 mRNA. 2149 01:49:15,816 --> 01:49:21,622 AND SO WEI SUE'S LAB TOOK CELLS, 2150 01:49:21,622 --> 01:49:23,257 TREATED WITH CYCLOHEXIMIDE, 2151 01:49:23,257 --> 01:49:26,093 COLLECTED THE CELL LYSATE, 2152 01:49:26,093 --> 01:49:29,963 LOADED ON SUCROSE DENSITY GRADE 2153 01:49:29,963 --> 01:49:30,197 WENT. 2154 01:49:30,197 --> 01:49:39,139 FRACTIONATED THEM SO WHAT YOU 2155 01:49:39,139 --> 01:49:42,509 SEE HERE, ANALYZE THE RNA BY 2156 01:49:42,509 --> 01:49:46,046 MASS GENERATION FIVE PRIME RACE. 2157 01:49:46,046 --> 01:49:49,650 RESULTS ARE THAT IF YOU LOOK AT 2158 01:49:49,650 --> 01:49:52,052 WHAT'S IN THE TOTAL RNA AS I 2159 01:49:52,052 --> 01:49:52,953 SHOWED BEFORE IT'S MOSTLY 3G 2160 01:49:52,953 --> 01:49:55,189 WITH A LITTLE BIT OF 1G. 2161 01:49:55,189 --> 01:49:57,558 IF YOU LOOK AT THE FREE RNA 2162 01:49:57,558 --> 01:50:00,461 THAT'S NOT BEEN LOADED ON 2163 01:50:00,461 --> 01:50:01,995 POLYSOMES, YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT 2164 01:50:01,995 --> 01:50:03,197 PROFILE DOESN'T CHANGE SO THERE 2165 01:50:03,197 --> 01:50:05,165 DOESN'T SEEM TO BE PREFERENTIAL 2166 01:50:05,165 --> 01:50:07,134 LOADING OF THE 1G OR 3G. 2167 01:50:07,134 --> 01:50:10,637 AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE VERY 2168 01:50:10,637 --> 01:50:13,040 FRACTION, WHAT YOU CAN SEE IS 2169 01:50:13,040 --> 01:50:17,110 THAT THE 1G RNA IS PRESENT IN 2170 01:50:17,110 --> 01:50:20,848 THE 4DF, 6 DF, EVEN THE LIGHT 2171 01:50:20,848 --> 01:50:21,281 POLYSOMES. 2172 01:50:21,281 --> 01:50:26,019 ONCE YOU GOAT MEDIUM AND HEAVY 2173 01:50:26,019 --> 01:50:28,622 IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY LESS 2174 01:50:28,622 --> 01:50:28,956 DOMINANT. 2175 01:50:28,956 --> 01:50:32,893 SO THIS SUGGESTS THE VERY 2176 01:50:32,893 --> 01:50:37,831 ACTIVELY TRANSLATING GENES ARE 2177 01:50:37,831 --> 01:50:40,634 NOT THE 1G RNA. 2178 01:50:40,634 --> 01:50:44,605 WE WANTED -- HERE IS WHAT I 2179 01:50:44,605 --> 01:50:46,807 SHOWED YOU AND QUANTIFICATION, 2180 01:50:46,807 --> 01:50:48,775 YOU CAN SEE PRESENT TO THE LIGHT 2181 01:50:48,775 --> 01:50:49,743 FRACTIONS BUT THEN NOT 2182 01:50:49,743 --> 01:50:52,379 REPRESENTED IN THE MEDIUM AND 2183 01:50:52,379 --> 01:50:53,347 HEAVY FRACTIONS. 2184 01:50:53,347 --> 01:50:57,317 WE WANT TO LOOK AT MUTANTS. 2185 01:50:57,317 --> 01:51:05,425 WHAT WE SAW WITH G MUTANT AND 2186 01:51:05,425 --> 01:51:09,363 ADD-GG, ALL LOADED EQUALLY WELL. 2187 01:51:09,363 --> 01:51:12,399 CHANGING THE STRUCTURE REALLY 2188 01:51:12,399 --> 01:51:14,701 HAS IMPACTS TRANSLATION IN 2189 01:51:14,701 --> 01:51:15,269 CELLS. 2190 01:51:15,269 --> 01:51:17,871 AND SO TO FINISH WITH THINGS 2191 01:51:17,871 --> 01:51:21,608 ONGOING STUDIES WE'RE NOW 2192 01:51:21,608 --> 01:51:25,212 WORKING ON, IF THE 1G -- SORRY, 2193 01:51:25,212 --> 01:51:31,018 THE CAP IS BOUND BY EIF BINDING 2194 01:51:31,018 --> 01:51:34,321 COMPLEX, THAT COMPLEX CONTAINS 2195 01:51:34,321 --> 01:51:35,822 EIF 4E, IN ORDER TO LOCATE THE 2196 01:51:35,822 --> 01:51:38,592 CAP IT'S BEEN SHOWN IN RECENT 2197 01:51:38,592 --> 01:51:42,863 YEARS IT REALLY NEEDS 4G 2198 01:51:42,863 --> 01:51:46,900 SCAFFOLD PROTEIN, AND THE 2199 01:51:46,900 --> 01:51:50,204 HELICASE TO BIND FOR EFFICIENT 2200 01:51:50,204 --> 01:51:52,272 LOADING OF RIBOSOMES, THE FIRST 2201 01:51:52,272 --> 01:51:53,273 STEP. 2202 01:51:53,273 --> 01:51:57,210 LOOK AT CAP BINDING OF 1G AND 3G 2203 01:51:57,210 --> 01:52:03,116 WITH THE COMPLEX, WHICH THIS IS 2204 01:52:03,116 --> 01:52:05,285 WORK DONE IN COLLABORATION, 2205 01:52:05,285 --> 01:52:07,821 PURIFYING 4G FOR US, IN INSECT 2206 01:52:07,821 --> 01:52:10,123 CELLS, YOU SEE SIMILAR BINDING 2207 01:52:10,123 --> 01:52:14,294 BETWEEN THE CAP 1G AND CAP 3G 2208 01:52:14,294 --> 01:52:17,464 RNA CONSISTENT WITH RIBOSOME 2209 01:52:17,464 --> 01:52:18,665 PROFILES, NO PREFERENTIAL 2210 01:52:18,665 --> 01:52:21,068 LOADING OF RIBOSOMES AND NO 2211 01:52:21,068 --> 01:52:23,003 PREFERENTIAL BINDING OF THE 2212 01:52:23,003 --> 01:52:24,571 COMPLEX EITHER. 2213 01:52:24,571 --> 01:52:27,140 AND SO IN COLLABORATION WE'RE 2214 01:52:27,140 --> 01:52:29,843 STARTING SINGLE MOLECULE 2215 01:52:29,843 --> 01:52:32,312 EXPERIMENTSES TO LOOK AT 2216 01:52:32,312 --> 01:52:34,348 SCANNING OF RIBOSOMES OF THE ONE 2217 01:52:34,348 --> 01:52:36,650 RESULT HERE AGAIN HE'S LOOKING 2218 01:52:36,650 --> 01:52:39,920 AT THE FRET SYSTEM SET UP SO YOU 2219 01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:44,458 HAVE A CAP AND THE ACCEPTOR IS 2220 01:52:44,458 --> 01:52:48,562 DOWNSTREAM OF THE 5 PRIME ATR 2221 01:52:48,562 --> 01:52:52,199 WITH OLIGO, IN THE FOLDED 2222 01:52:52,199 --> 01:52:54,267 CONFIRMATION YOU'D EXPECT A HIGH 2223 01:52:54,267 --> 01:52:57,204 FRET BUT ONCE THIS COMPLEX BINDS 2224 01:52:57,204 --> 01:52:59,406 AND FACILITATES UNWINDING OF THE 2225 01:52:59,406 --> 01:53:01,708 RNA YOU WOULD EXPECT LOW FRETS. 2226 01:53:01,708 --> 01:53:04,878 WE CAN COMPARE THIS FRET 2227 01:53:04,878 --> 01:53:09,916 EFFICIENCY UPON THIS CAP BINDING 2228 01:53:09,916 --> 01:53:16,023 COMPLEX BY NAME, TO ABATE A 2229 01:53:16,023 --> 01:53:17,124 GLOBIN UNSTRUCTURED RNA. 2230 01:53:17,124 --> 01:53:21,828 WE START WITH A HIGH FRET, AS 2231 01:53:21,828 --> 01:53:26,533 YOU ADD THE EIF 4 COMPLEX YOU 2232 01:53:26,533 --> 01:53:27,567 SAY TRANSITION TO COMPLEX IN THE 2233 01:53:27,567 --> 01:53:29,870 LOW FRET STATE. 2234 01:53:29,870 --> 01:53:32,472 HOWEVER WITH 1G AND 3G RNA 2235 01:53:32,472 --> 01:53:34,741 HIGHLY STRUCTURED YOU SEE MORE 2236 01:53:34,741 --> 01:53:37,377 HETEROGENEITY BUT ALSO MUCH 2237 01:53:37,377 --> 01:53:38,945 SLOWER UNWINDING OF THESE RNAs 2238 01:53:38,945 --> 01:53:41,114 AS EXPECTED. 2239 01:53:41,114 --> 01:53:42,082 AGAIN, WE SEE VARIABLES, 2240 01:53:42,082 --> 01:53:43,517 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABILITY OF 2241 01:53:43,517 --> 01:53:46,586 THIS COMPLEX TO UNWIND THE 1G 2242 01:53:46,586 --> 01:53:47,421 AND 3G. 2243 01:53:47,421 --> 01:53:49,756 THEY BOTH TAKE 20 OR 30 SECONDS 2244 01:53:49,756 --> 01:53:50,857 TO BE UNWOUND. 2245 01:53:50,857 --> 01:53:52,192 WE'RE INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT 2246 01:53:52,192 --> 01:53:52,626 SCANNING. 2247 01:53:52,626 --> 01:53:55,796 I DON'T HAVE DATA BUT HYPOTHESIS 2248 01:53:55,796 --> 01:53:59,299 BASED ON THE DATA SO FAR IS THAT 2249 01:53:59,299 --> 01:54:05,138 BOTH RNAs CAN LOAD THE CAP 2250 01:54:05,138 --> 01:54:15,048 BINDING COMPLEX AND 4 DIS 2251 01:54:15,048 --> 01:54:15,449 RIBOSOMES. 2252 01:54:15,449 --> 01:54:19,453 RESULTING IN EFFICIENT, YOU 2253 01:54:19,453 --> 01:54:21,188 KNOW, AN EFFICIENT TRANSLATION, 2254 01:54:21,188 --> 01:54:24,357 THOUGH TRANSLATION DOES OCCUR. 2255 01:54:24,357 --> 01:54:28,829 YOU HAVE MORE ON THE LEFT 2256 01:54:28,829 --> 01:54:29,496 STRUCTURED 3G RNA. 2257 01:54:29,496 --> 01:54:31,131 AND SO THAT'S ALL THE SCIENCE I 2258 01:54:31,131 --> 01:54:33,467 WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT. 2259 01:54:33,467 --> 01:54:35,769 AGAIN, I MENTIONED A LOT OF 2260 01:54:35,769 --> 01:54:36,837 THESE PEOPLE, SHOWED PICTURES ON 2261 01:54:36,837 --> 01:54:38,472 THE FIRST SLIDE. 2262 01:54:38,472 --> 01:54:40,340 I WON'T BELABOR THIS TO GET TO 2263 01:54:40,340 --> 01:54:41,975 THE IMPORTANT PART. 2264 01:54:41,975 --> 01:54:42,676 THAT'S ALAN. 2265 01:54:42,676 --> 01:54:44,845 A FEW THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM 2266 01:54:44,845 --> 01:54:46,480 ALAN OVER THE YEARS, NOT A TOP 2267 01:54:46,480 --> 01:54:49,783 TEN BUT A TOP FIVE LIST. 2268 01:54:49,783 --> 01:54:52,519 TOP FIVE, PUT YOUR BOOK DOWN IN 2269 01:54:52,519 --> 01:54:53,386 GRACE AUDITORIUM BEFORE 2270 01:54:53,386 --> 01:54:53,653 BREAKFAST. 2271 01:54:53,653 --> 01:54:55,021 THIS WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST 2272 01:54:55,021 --> 01:54:57,324 THING I LEARNED FROM ALAN. 2273 01:54:57,324 --> 01:55:00,193 AND THE BEST PLACE IS RIGHT 2274 01:55:00,193 --> 01:55:00,427 THERE. 2275 01:55:00,427 --> 01:55:01,495 AND ALAN DOESN'T SIT IN THE 2276 01:55:01,495 --> 01:55:02,162 FRONT ROW. 2277 01:55:02,162 --> 01:55:03,263 HE SITS ABOUT FOUR BACK. 2278 01:55:03,263 --> 01:55:06,199 IF YOU LOOK AT THAT PICTURE THAT 2279 01:55:06,199 --> 01:55:07,400 SOMEONE SHOWED ALREADY THAT'S 2280 01:55:07,400 --> 01:55:09,703 EXACTLY WHERE I WAS SITTING. 2281 01:55:09,703 --> 01:55:11,671 I ALWAYS LIKED SITTING CLOSE TO 2282 01:55:11,671 --> 01:55:14,641 ALAN ESPECIALLY WHEN I FIRST 2283 01:55:14,641 --> 01:55:24,084 STARTED, I'M NOT TRAINED AS A 2284 01:55:24,084 --> 01:55:24,518 VIROLOGISTS. 2285 01:55:24,518 --> 01:55:28,221 I WOULD SAY DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? 2286 01:55:28,221 --> 01:55:31,291 AND WE WOULD HAVE QUIET 2287 01:55:31,291 --> 01:55:31,958 CONVERSATIONS. 2288 01:55:31,958 --> 01:55:33,360 NEXT IS ASK SIMPLE QUESTIONS. 2289 01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:34,394 IMPORTANT THOUGH. 2290 01:55:34,394 --> 01:55:35,796 THESE PAPERS WERE HIGHLIGHTED 2291 01:55:35,796 --> 01:55:39,065 HERE TODAY. 2292 01:55:39,065 --> 01:55:42,469 WE ALL ADMIRE THE PAPERS. 2293 01:55:42,469 --> 01:55:46,139 THE QUESTION IS WHAT DO 2294 01:55:46,139 --> 01:55:47,140 RETROVIRAL PACKAGES? 2295 01:55:47,140 --> 01:55:51,278 DELPHINE SHOWED RIBOSOMES, 2296 01:55:51,278 --> 01:55:52,279 SIMPLE QUESTION, AMAZING ANSWER. 2297 01:55:52,279 --> 01:55:57,851 WHAT IS THE KEY COMPONENT OF 2298 01:55:57,851 --> 01:56:01,388 RETROVIRAL ASSEMBLY IN VITRO? 2299 01:56:01,388 --> 01:56:03,990 ERIC OR SOMEONE MENTIONED 2300 01:56:03,990 --> 01:56:04,925 iNOSITOL PHOSPHATES, NOW WE 2301 01:56:04,925 --> 01:56:07,828 KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE FOR 2302 01:56:07,828 --> 01:56:11,431 ASSEMBLY IN CELLS. 2303 01:56:11,431 --> 01:56:12,632 BE SKEPTICAL. 2304 01:56:12,632 --> 01:56:13,400 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 2305 01:56:13,400 --> 01:56:15,735 WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT YOU THINK 2306 01:56:15,735 --> 01:56:16,903 YOU KNOW. 2307 01:56:16,903 --> 01:56:19,406 AND RELATED TO THAT, DON'T 2308 01:56:19,406 --> 01:56:19,873 FORGET HISTORY. 2309 01:56:19,873 --> 01:56:23,610 IF YOU WEREN'T THERE FOR ALAN'S 2310 01:56:23,610 --> 01:56:25,478 COLD SPRING HARBOR KEYNOTE TALK 2311 01:56:25,478 --> 01:56:27,981 IN 2016, FIND IT ON YouTube 2312 01:56:27,981 --> 01:56:30,383 AND LISTEN TO THAT, I LEARNED A 2313 01:56:30,383 --> 01:56:31,151 LOT FROM IT. 2314 01:56:31,151 --> 01:56:32,552 AND THEN THIS ONE. 2315 01:56:32,552 --> 01:56:34,554 IT'S OKAY TO JUST LOOK OUT THE 2316 01:56:34,554 --> 01:56:34,821 WINDOW. 2317 01:56:34,821 --> 01:56:36,623 THIS IS RELATED TO ONE TIME ALAN 2318 01:56:36,623 --> 01:56:39,125 AND I HAD BEEN AT MANY 2319 01:56:39,125 --> 01:56:40,760 CONFERENCES, MANY TIMES IN 2320 01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:43,930 EUROPE OR WHATEVER. 2321 01:56:43,930 --> 01:56:48,101 YEAH, I DON'T MIND LONG FLIGHTS, 2322 01:56:48,101 --> 01:56:50,203 GET WORK DONE, WRITE PAPERS. 2323 01:56:50,203 --> 01:56:52,572 HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I JUST LIKE 2324 01:56:52,572 --> 01:56:54,507 TO LOOK OUT THE WINDOW. 2325 01:56:54,507 --> 01:56:56,009 THIS IS A PICTURE I TOOK LAST 2326 01:56:56,009 --> 01:56:58,745 YEAR ON THE WAY TO COLD SPRING 2327 01:56:58,745 --> 01:57:02,582 HARBOR, A BEAUTIFUL DAY, I 2328 01:57:02,582 --> 01:57:05,318 SHOULD CAPTURE THAT. 2329 01:57:05,318 --> 01:57:07,921 OVER THE YEARS WE HAD PUBLISHED 2330 01:57:07,921 --> 01:57:09,923 EIGHT MANUSCRIPTS AND ARTICLES 2331 01:57:09,923 --> 01:57:12,626 OF VARIOUS KINDS TOGETHER. 2332 01:57:12,626 --> 01:57:14,160 WE SHARED COMMON INTERESTS, WHEN 2333 01:57:14,160 --> 01:57:16,897 WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY WE TRIED 2334 01:57:16,897 --> 01:57:17,898 TO COLLABORATE TOGETHER, AND 2335 01:57:17,898 --> 01:57:19,399 IT'S BEEN A LOT OF FUN. 2336 01:57:19,399 --> 01:57:21,401 WE HAVE A LOT OF FOND MEMORIES 2337 01:57:21,401 --> 01:57:25,538 LIKE I SAID ALL OVER EUROPE AND 2338 01:57:25,538 --> 01:57:26,106 EVERYWHERE. 2339 01:57:26,106 --> 01:57:28,275 BUT THIS WAS THE BOSTON DUCK 2340 01:57:28,275 --> 01:57:32,245 BOAT TOUR IN 2019 AT THE 2341 01:57:32,245 --> 01:57:33,747 RETROVIRAL ASSEMBLY MEETING. 2342 01:57:33,747 --> 01:57:36,316 AND WE WERE SITTING RIGHT BEHIND 2343 01:57:36,316 --> 01:57:38,118 I THINK KATHY AND BEN, THAT WAS 2344 01:57:38,118 --> 01:57:38,451 FUN. 2345 01:57:38,451 --> 01:57:46,226 LOTS OF FUN DINNERS TOGETHER. 2346 01:57:46,226 --> 01:57:48,862 THIS WAS AFTER THE MEETING WITH 2347 01:57:48,862 --> 01:57:52,265 OUR MUTUAL AND DEAR FRIEND 2348 01:57:52,265 --> 01:57:54,167 JUDITH. 2349 01:57:54,167 --> 01:57:56,536 WE INTERACTED A LOT, COLD SPRING 2350 01:57:56,536 --> 01:57:58,471 HARBOR, HERE AT MY SABBATICAL 2351 01:57:58,471 --> 01:57:58,939 AND MEETINGS. 2352 01:57:58,939 --> 01:58:00,807 THIS IS ONE MEETING I DIDN'T GO 2353 01:58:00,807 --> 01:58:02,909 TO BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND MYSELF 2354 01:58:02,909 --> 01:58:05,445 BUT I FOUND ALAN, YOU'LL NOTICE 2355 01:58:05,445 --> 01:58:07,614 IN THE CENTER. 2356 01:58:07,614 --> 01:58:09,683 SO YOU KNOW HOW THEY SAY LET'S 2357 01:58:09,683 --> 01:58:12,886 GET UP, GET A PICTURE, WE 2358 01:58:12,886 --> 01:58:13,353 ASSEMBLE. 2359 01:58:13,353 --> 01:58:16,256 EVERY PHOTO I FOUND, YOU SEE HIM 2360 01:58:16,256 --> 01:58:18,024 ON THE BOTTOM HERE? 2361 01:58:18,024 --> 01:58:20,093 IN THE CENTER AGAIN. 2362 01:58:20,093 --> 01:58:21,728 THIS IS MINNEAPOLIS MEETING. 2363 01:58:21,728 --> 01:58:24,030 HERE'S A COUPLE MORE. 2364 01:58:24,030 --> 01:58:26,199 THIS ONE HE'S MAYBE OFF CENTER 2365 01:58:26,199 --> 01:58:30,470 BUT PRETTY CLOSE, A STRANGE 2366 01:58:30,470 --> 01:58:31,338 L-SHAPED ROOM. 2367 01:58:31,338 --> 01:58:34,074 LAST ONE, BOSTON, THERE HE IS. 2368 01:58:34,074 --> 01:58:37,911 TO THE PERSON, I FOUND IT. 2369 01:58:37,911 --> 01:58:39,779 THIS REALLY IS BECAUSE HE'S A 2370 01:58:39,779 --> 01:58:41,648 CENTRAL IF NOT THE CENTRAL 2371 01:58:41,648 --> 01:58:45,251 PLAYER IN THIS FIELD OF 2372 01:58:45,251 --> 01:58:47,988 RETROVIRAL ASSEMBLY SO IT'S 2373 01:58:47,988 --> 01:58:48,521 APPROPRIATE. 2374 01:58:48,521 --> 01:58:51,591 I COULDN'T FIND THE LAST PHOTO 2375 01:58:51,591 --> 01:58:52,993 FROM THE MEETING, MANY OF YOU 2376 01:58:52,993 --> 01:58:55,628 WERE THERE IN SALT LAKE CITY. 2377 01:58:55,628 --> 01:58:58,164 I E-MAILED, DO YOU HAVE THE 2378 01:58:58,164 --> 01:58:58,832 GROUP PHOTO? 2379 01:58:58,832 --> 01:59:00,233 WE FORGOT TO TAKE ONE. 2380 01:59:00,233 --> 01:59:03,636 THEN I REMEMBERED FOR THOSE THAT 2381 01:59:03,636 --> 01:59:07,907 WERE THERE, THIS PHYSICIST HAS 2382 01:59:07,907 --> 01:59:10,443 CONNECTIONS WITH ASTRONOMERS. 2383 01:59:10,443 --> 01:59:11,745 AFTER THE POSTER SESSION, 2384 01:59:11,745 --> 01:59:16,783 ASTRONOMY SET UP TELESCOPES IN 2385 01:59:16,783 --> 01:59:22,022 PITCH DARK UTAH AND LOOKED UP AT 2386 01:59:22,022 --> 01:59:22,555 CELESTIAL BODIES. 2387 01:59:22,555 --> 01:59:23,656 THIS IS APPROXIMATELY WHAT WE 2388 01:59:23,656 --> 01:59:23,823 SAW. 2389 01:59:23,823 --> 01:59:27,994 IN THE CENTER WE ALSO HAVE ALAN. 2390 01:59:27,994 --> 01:59:30,563 [LAUGHTER] 2391 01:59:30,563 --> 01:59:36,236 SO, ALAN, THANK YOU FOR BEING 2392 01:59:36,236 --> 01:59:38,438 THE CENTER OF OUR UNIVERSE AND 2393 01:59:38,438 --> 01:59:40,673 THE RETROVIRUS FIELD, AND 2394 01:59:40,673 --> 01:59:50,984 CONGRATULATIONS. 2395 01:59:56,823 --> 01:59:59,025 >> SO YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT HIV, 2396 01:59:59,025 --> 02:00:01,761 HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ABLE TO 2397 02:00:01,761 --> 02:00:04,397 MEASURE EFFECTS OF, SAY, THESE 2398 02:00:04,397 --> 02:00:09,636 MUTATIONS ON VIRUS REPLICATION? 2399 02:00:09,636 --> 02:00:09,903 >> YES. 2400 02:00:09,903 --> 02:00:11,604 SO, WEI-SUH CAN ANSWER BETTER 2401 02:00:11,604 --> 02:00:17,844 THAN I CAN BUT BASICALLY IF YOU 2402 02:00:17,844 --> 02:00:22,315 HAVE -- IF YOU ALTER DISTANCE, 2403 02:00:22,315 --> 02:00:25,618 HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE A 1G ONLY 2404 02:00:25,618 --> 02:00:29,856 VIRUS AND 3G ONLY VIRUS, ONLY 2405 02:00:29,856 --> 02:00:31,057 EXPRESS AND ARE REPLICATION 2406 02:00:31,057 --> 02:00:31,324 COMPETENT. 2407 02:00:31,324 --> 02:00:33,326 IF YOU COMPETE THEM WITH THE 2408 02:00:33,326 --> 02:00:34,461 WILD TYPE, THE WILD TYPE ALWAYS 2409 02:00:34,461 --> 02:00:35,895 WINS OUT. 2410 02:00:35,895 --> 02:00:39,833 THERE'S A FITNESS DEFECT. 2411 02:00:39,833 --> 02:00:45,405 AND SO, YEAH, ANYTHING ELSE, 2412 02:00:45,405 --> 02:00:46,272 WEI-SUH? 2413 02:00:46,272 --> 02:00:48,241 OKAY. 2414 02:00:48,241 --> 02:00:51,077 THE VIRUS HAS OPTIMIZED -- TAKEN 2415 02:00:51,077 --> 02:00:53,713 ADVANTAGE OF THE SLOPPINESS OF 2416 02:00:53,713 --> 02:00:55,148 THE HOST RNA POLYMERASE. 2417 02:00:55,148 --> 02:00:56,483 I GUESS THAT'S STILL A 2418 02:00:56,483 --> 02:01:01,054 POSSIBILITY BUT WE DON'T KNOW 2419 02:01:01,054 --> 02:01:02,155 THAT. 2420 02:01:02,155 --> 02:01:06,693 ADAM? 2421 02:01:06,693 --> 02:01:11,798 >> REAL BEAUTIFUL WORK, 2422 02:01:11,798 --> 02:01:18,037 REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH. 2423 02:01:18,037 --> 02:01:21,641 IS THERE A WAY YOU CAN 2424 02:01:21,641 --> 02:01:22,108 MANIPULATE IT? 2425 02:01:22,108 --> 02:01:24,611 >> I BET YOU COULD. 2426 02:01:24,611 --> 02:01:27,914 WE HAVEN'T TRIED THAT. 2427 02:01:27,914 --> 02:01:30,884 DIMERIZATION, THE VARIANT THAT 2428 02:01:30,884 --> 02:01:32,785 DOESN'T -- IT STILL FORMS A 2429 02:01:32,785 --> 02:01:33,686 DIMER, STILL PACKAGES 2430 02:01:33,686 --> 02:01:35,955 SELECTIVELY AND EVERYTHING BUT 2431 02:01:35,955 --> 02:01:39,459 WE DO THINK DIMERIZATION IS 2432 02:01:39,459 --> 02:01:40,326 IMPORTANT. 2433 02:01:40,326 --> 02:01:45,498 WE'VE NEVER TRIED THAT 2434 02:01:45,498 --> 02:01:47,567 SPECIFICALLY. 2435 02:01:47,567 --> 02:01:48,334 >> (INAUDIBLE). 2436 02:01:48,334 --> 02:01:50,970 >> UH-HUH, YEAH. 2437 02:01:50,970 --> 02:01:53,706 >> WHAT WAS THE RATIO OF 2438 02:01:53,706 --> 02:01:56,943 INVESTIGATORS TO AMINO ACIDS AT 2439 02:01:56,943 --> 02:02:00,947 THE MEETING? 2440 02:02:00,947 --> 02:02:03,016 [LAUGHTER] 2441 02:02:03,016 --> 02:02:03,650 >> ABOUT TWO INVESTIGATORS FOR 2442 02:02:03,650 --> 02:02:04,751 EVERY AMINO ACID. 2443 02:02:04,751 --> 02:02:09,022 I SHOULD SAY MAYBE ERIC WOULD 2444 02:02:09,022 --> 02:02:11,090 HAVE A SLIDE, THE NEXT ONE IS 2445 02:02:11,090 --> 02:02:15,061 GOING TO BE IN PRAGUE, END OF I 2446 02:02:15,061 --> 02:02:16,896 BELIEVE -- IS IT MIDDLE OR END 2447 02:02:16,896 --> 02:02:17,430 OF SEPTEMBER? 2448 02:02:17,430 --> 02:02:19,432 >> THIRD WEEK. 2449 02:02:19,432 --> 02:02:20,533 >> THIRD WEEK IN SEPTEMBER, 2450 02:02:20,533 --> 02:02:20,833 2025. 2451 02:02:20,833 --> 02:02:23,903 WE'LL GET AN E-MAIL OUT, 2452 02:02:23,903 --> 02:02:24,771 ORGANIZING IT, HOPEFULLY NEXT 2453 02:02:24,771 --> 02:02:29,809 WEEK FOR THOSE ON THE LIST. 2454 02:02:29,809 --> 02:02:31,144 >> BEAUTIFUL. 2455 02:02:31,144 --> 02:02:36,716 I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER ABOUT 2456 02:02:36,716 --> 02:02:38,384 PACKAGING, MLBs, DO OTHER 2457 02:02:38,384 --> 02:02:39,586 VIRUSES DO SELECTIVE PACKAGE? 2458 02:02:39,586 --> 02:02:43,089 >> THERE'S ALSO GOING TO BE TWO 2459 02:02:43,089 --> 02:02:44,624 PULLS, AND WITH HIV IT WAS NEVER 2460 02:02:44,624 --> 02:02:47,026 THOUGHT TO BE THE CASE. 2461 02:02:47,026 --> 02:02:49,629 BUT IN RECENT YEARS IT'S 2462 02:02:49,629 --> 02:02:50,930 SHOWN -- THE MECHANISM IS 2463 02:02:50,930 --> 02:02:53,233 DIFFERENT IN MLV. 2464 02:02:53,233 --> 02:02:54,667 WE DON'T THINK IT'S RELATED TO 2465 02:02:54,667 --> 02:02:55,868 THE FIVE PRIME END. 2466 02:02:55,868 --> 02:03:04,177 YES, IT'S BEEN SHOWN IN OTHER 2467 02:03:04,177 --> 02:03:06,879 VIRUSES. 2468 02:03:06,879 --> 02:03:07,480 DELPHINE? 2469 02:03:07,480 --> 02:03:12,285 >> I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAVE 2470 02:03:12,285 --> 02:03:18,858 DONE OR INTEND TO DO STRUCTURE 2471 02:03:18,858 --> 02:03:19,959 WITH SENTAG DYNAMIC OF 2472 02:03:19,959 --> 02:03:21,794 TRANSLATION IN THE CELL. 2473 02:03:21,794 --> 02:03:22,695 >> YES. 2474 02:03:22,695 --> 02:03:28,334 >> AND YOU CAN SEE MAYBE IT'S -- 2475 02:03:28,334 --> 02:03:33,573 >> IT'S IN MY PROPOSAL. 2476 02:03:33,573 --> 02:03:34,807 YEAH, NO, THOSE ARE EXACTLY THE 2477 02:03:34,807 --> 02:03:36,342 THINGS WE WANT TO DO. 2478 02:03:36,342 --> 02:03:37,543 WE UNDERSTAND THE BASICS. 2479 02:03:37,543 --> 02:03:40,847 WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES IN THE 2480 02:03:40,847 --> 02:03:44,584 DYNAMICS, KINETICS, PROTEIN 2481 02:03:44,584 --> 02:03:45,018 BINDING DIFFERENCES, 2482 02:03:45,018 --> 02:03:45,885 METHYLATION, MODIFICATION, WE 2483 02:03:45,885 --> 02:03:49,055 HAVE THE TOOLS BUT THE 1G, 2484 02:03:49,055 --> 02:03:53,126 3G-ONLY VIRUS, TO LOOK AT THAT. 2485 02:03:53,126 --> 02:03:59,232 >> YOU COULD SEE THE RNA -- I 2486 02:03:59,232 --> 02:04:01,334 MEAN TRANSLATION, BUT THEN DO 2487 02:04:01,334 --> 02:04:03,303 YOU THINK THIS GAG WOULD BE THE 2488 02:04:03,303 --> 02:04:06,339 CHAPERONE OR ONE OR THE OTHER OF 2489 02:04:06,339 --> 02:04:09,642 THE SPECIES OVER TIME? 2490 02:04:09,642 --> 02:04:10,410 >> A TRANSLATION CHAPERONE? 2491 02:04:10,410 --> 02:04:12,145 WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 2492 02:04:12,145 --> 02:04:13,780 >> WE KNOW GAG, LIKE I SAID IN 2493 02:04:13,780 --> 02:04:16,182 VITRO, WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT 2494 02:04:16,182 --> 02:04:18,351 ANY IN CELLS BUT DEFINITELY 2495 02:04:18,351 --> 02:04:20,586 ASSEMBLE MORE READILY IN THE 2496 02:04:20,586 --> 02:04:22,555 FIVE PRIME OF THE 1G RNA, I 2497 02:04:22,555 --> 02:04:26,693 IMAGINE THE SAME THING IS TRUE 2498 02:04:26,693 --> 02:04:28,127 IN CELLS. 2499 02:04:28,127 --> 02:04:28,594 WE HAVEN'T LOOKED-IT. 2500 02:04:28,594 --> 02:04:30,797 I DON'T THINK IT'S A SWITCH. 2501 02:04:30,797 --> 02:04:33,299 I THINK IT'S TWO SPECIES, RIGHT? 2502 02:04:33,299 --> 02:04:34,734 ONE OF THEM, EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, 2503 02:04:34,734 --> 02:04:37,270 ONE OF THEM IS BOUND BY GAG 2504 02:04:37,270 --> 02:04:39,405 READILY AND GUIDED TO THE 2505 02:04:39,405 --> 02:04:41,441 MEMBRANE FOR ASSEMBLY. 2506 02:04:41,441 --> 02:04:46,746 THE OTHER ONE -- BOTH LOADED BY 2507 02:04:46,746 --> 02:04:49,148 RIBOSOMES. 2508 02:04:49,148 --> 02:04:57,023 THE 1G IS NOT AS EFFECTIVE, IT'S 2509 02:04:57,023 --> 02:05:01,627 A DISTRIBUTION OF ENSEMBLES OF 2510 02:05:01,627 --> 02:05:02,595 RNA STRUCTURES, DISTRIBUTION 2511 02:05:02,595 --> 02:05:08,067 SHIFTED AND FOR THESE DIFFERENT 2512 02:05:08,067 --> 02:05:08,568 FUNCTIONS. 2513 02:05:08,568 --> 02:05:12,238 >> I KNOW THERE'S DIFFERENCES IN 2514 02:05:12,238 --> 02:05:16,609 CAP BINDING COMPLEXES. 2515 02:05:16,609 --> 02:05:16,943 >> YES. 2516 02:05:16,943 --> 02:05:22,949 >> SO IS ANYTHING KNOWN IN T 2517 02:05:22,949 --> 02:05:24,317 CELLS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT -- 2518 02:05:24,317 --> 02:05:27,553 >> EXACTLY WHAT THOSE ARE IN T 2519 02:05:27,553 --> 02:05:27,754 CELLS? 2520 02:05:27,754 --> 02:05:29,288 I DON'T KNOW. 2521 02:05:29,288 --> 02:05:31,023 I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING ASK 2522 02:05:31,023 --> 02:05:34,594 ABOUT THE TRIMETHYL G CAP. 2523 02:05:34,594 --> 02:05:36,662 IT'S BEEN PROPOSED AND SHOWN 2524 02:05:36,662 --> 02:05:38,931 PRETTY CLEARLY TO BE SOMETIMES 2525 02:05:38,931 --> 02:05:42,769 GIVE US TRIMETHYL G CAP AND BIND 2526 02:05:42,769 --> 02:05:44,103 ALTERNATIVE COMPLEX AND WE'RE 2527 02:05:44,103 --> 02:05:46,305 LOOKING AT THAT BUT IN TERMS OF 2528 02:05:46,305 --> 02:05:52,845 IN T CELLS WHAT THE ISOFORMS ARE 2529 02:05:52,845 --> 02:05:54,380 WE HAVEN'T LOOKED. 2530 02:05:54,380 --> 02:06:04,791 I I SHOULD STOP THERE. 2531 02:06:06,726 --> 02:06:16,702 2532 02:06:22,975 --> 02:06:25,111 >> THANK YOU FOR A BEAUTIFUL 2533 02:06:25,111 --> 02:06:25,678 TALK, KARIN. 2534 02:06:25,678 --> 02:06:28,114 WE'VE HEARD THE FIRST PART OF MY 2535 02:06:28,114 --> 02:06:30,082 INTRODUCTION OF THE NEXT 2536 02:06:30,082 --> 02:06:35,588 SPEAKER, BY MISTAKE, BUT THE 2537 02:06:35,588 --> 02:06:37,190 NEXT SPEAKER IS MAURICIO 2538 02:06:37,190 --> 02:06:39,358 COMAS-GARCIA, WHO WAS ALSO A 2539 02:06:39,358 --> 02:06:44,397 POSTDOC IN MY LAB, ACTUALLY 2540 02:06:44,397 --> 02:06:48,701 PRETTY RECENTLY. 2541 02:06:48,701 --> 02:06:51,971 HE CAME FROM A LAB REALLY FROM A 2542 02:06:51,971 --> 02:06:54,507 PHYSICS BACKGROUND, FROM A 2543 02:06:54,507 --> 02:06:58,110 COMMUNITY OF PHYSICISTS WHO HAD 2544 02:06:58,110 --> 02:07:01,280 DECIDED TO STUDY VIRUSES. 2545 02:07:01,280 --> 02:07:06,185 CENTERED AROUND UCLA, WHO WAS 2546 02:07:06,185 --> 02:07:07,220 HIS THESIS ADVISER, MAURICIO 2547 02:07:07,220 --> 02:07:10,723 CAME TO MY LAB AND REALLY WORKED 2548 02:07:10,723 --> 02:07:13,893 OUT THE TECHNIQUES TO MEASURE 2549 02:07:13,893 --> 02:07:18,698 BINDING OF GAG TO DIFFERENT 2550 02:07:18,698 --> 02:07:20,433 RNAs, UNDER DIFFERENT 2551 02:07:20,433 --> 02:07:21,400 CONDITIONS. 2552 02:07:21,400 --> 02:07:23,169 I THINK HE DID BEAUTIFUL WORK 2553 02:07:23,169 --> 02:07:28,107 FOLLOWING THE FOOT STEPS OF WHAT 2554 02:07:28,107 --> 02:07:29,842 KARIN HAD ALREADY PUBLISHED, 2555 02:07:29,842 --> 02:07:33,913 EXPANDED THE VIEW WITH 2556 02:07:33,913 --> 02:07:34,780 FASCINATING RESULTS. 2557 02:07:34,780 --> 02:07:36,949 I WON'T TALK ABOUT THAT, I'LL 2558 02:07:36,949 --> 02:07:40,887 JUST SAY HE DID BEAUTIFUL WORK 2559 02:07:40,887 --> 02:07:44,524 IN MY LAB AND WAS DELIGHTED TO 2560 02:07:44,524 --> 02:07:47,593 GET A NICE JOB IN HIS HOME 2561 02:07:47,593 --> 02:07:51,397 COUNTRY, WHICH IS MEXICO, AND SO 2562 02:07:51,397 --> 02:07:59,839 HE'S NOW PROFESSOR IN SON SAN 2563 02:07:59,839 --> 02:08:00,873 LUIS POTOSI CONTINUING TO DO 2564 02:08:00,873 --> 02:08:02,675 GREAT WORK IN A NUMBER OF 2565 02:08:02,675 --> 02:08:03,242 DIRECTIONS. 2566 02:08:03,242 --> 02:08:04,176 SORRY HE WOULDN'T BE HERE IN 2567 02:08:04,176 --> 02:08:07,914 PERSON BUT THERE HE IS. 2568 02:08:07,914 --> 02:08:18,391 GOOD MORNING, BUENOS DIAS. 2569 02:08:18,658 --> 02:08:23,195 LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR TOOK. 2570 02:08:23,195 --> 02:08:25,498 >> IT'S A SHAME UNITED AIRLINES 2571 02:08:25,498 --> 02:08:29,201 DIDN'T GET IT TOGETHER. 2572 02:08:29,201 --> 02:08:33,472 AND NOW I GUESS YOU CAN SEE MY 2573 02:08:33,472 --> 02:08:38,945 SCREEN RIGHT NOW. 2574 02:08:38,945 --> 02:08:39,912 OKAY. 2575 02:08:39,912 --> 02:08:42,114 SO, FIRST THIS IS ALAN WHEN HE 2576 02:08:42,114 --> 02:08:51,424 CAME TO VISIT AFTER I MOVED. 2577 02:08:51,424 --> 02:08:52,625 SIX MONTHS. 2578 02:08:52,625 --> 02:08:54,794 I'M DEEPLY SADDENED NOT ABLE TO 2579 02:08:54,794 --> 02:08:56,996 ATTEND TO THE MEETING IN PERSON. 2580 02:08:56,996 --> 02:09:00,466 BUT WE'RE HERE TO CELEBRATE YOU, 2581 02:09:00,466 --> 02:09:02,134 YOUR REMARKABLE SCIENTIFIC 2582 02:09:02,134 --> 02:09:03,002 CAREER, MOST IMPORTANTLY I'M 2583 02:09:03,002 --> 02:09:06,072 HERE TO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING 2584 02:09:06,072 --> 02:09:07,506 YOU'VE SAID TO ME. 2585 02:09:07,506 --> 02:09:10,343 I'M SORRY I WON'T BE TALKING 2586 02:09:10,343 --> 02:09:11,310 ABOUT HIV. 2587 02:09:11,310 --> 02:09:13,412 BUT BE SURE EVERYTHING I WORKED 2588 02:09:13,412 --> 02:09:17,016 ON IS A SEQUENCE OF YOUR 2589 02:09:17,016 --> 02:09:18,351 PREVIOUS RESEARCH. 2590 02:09:18,351 --> 02:09:20,620 YOU TAUGHT ME TO BE KIND, 2591 02:09:20,620 --> 02:09:22,388 POLITE, PASSIONATE. 2592 02:09:22,388 --> 02:09:24,790 YOU TAUGHT ME THAT WORDS MATTER, 2593 02:09:24,790 --> 02:09:28,527 ONE SHOULD BE CAREFUL WHEN 2594 02:09:28,527 --> 02:09:30,796 WRITING, HAVING SCIENTIFIC 2595 02:09:30,796 --> 02:09:31,097 DISCUSSIONS. 2596 02:09:31,097 --> 02:09:32,865 BUT HE ALSO TAUGHT ME TO BE 2597 02:09:32,865 --> 02:09:33,766 VERY, VERY SKEPTICAL. 2598 02:09:33,766 --> 02:09:36,402 YOU TAUGHT ME IT'S OKAY TO SAY I 2599 02:09:36,402 --> 02:09:37,370 DON'T KNOW. 2600 02:09:37,370 --> 02:09:39,238 YOU TAUGHT ME THAT ONE OF THE 2601 02:09:39,238 --> 02:09:43,509 GREATEST PLEASURES IN LIFE IS TO 2602 02:09:43,509 --> 02:09:45,478 DEEPLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU 2603 02:09:45,478 --> 02:09:46,879 STARTED, WHAT YOU THINK IS 2604 02:09:46,879 --> 02:09:47,179 INTERESTING. 2605 02:09:47,179 --> 02:09:49,849 IF I HAD TO CHOOSE MY CAREER 2606 02:09:49,849 --> 02:09:52,151 PATH AGAIN, FOR SURE I WOULD 2607 02:09:52,151 --> 02:09:54,587 CHOOSE WORKING WITH YOU. 2608 02:09:54,587 --> 02:09:56,122 HOWEVER, I MIGHT HAVE FOUND A 2609 02:09:56,122 --> 02:09:59,725 WAY TO STAY LONGER IN YOUR LAB. 2610 02:09:59,725 --> 02:10:02,128 IN FACT A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, I 2611 02:10:02,128 --> 02:10:04,296 SAW BILL, HE TOLD ME AFTER 2612 02:10:04,296 --> 02:10:06,065 SPENDING A FEW DAYS WORKING 2613 02:10:06,065 --> 02:10:07,833 TOGETHER, I'M GLAD YOU WENT TO 2614 02:10:07,833 --> 02:10:09,769 WORK WITH ALAN. 2615 02:10:09,769 --> 02:10:12,705 NOW YOU ARE REAL VIROLOGIST, 2616 02:10:12,705 --> 02:10:13,839 WHATEVER THAT MEANS, I DON'T 2617 02:10:13,839 --> 02:10:15,274 KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. 2618 02:10:15,274 --> 02:10:17,109 ALAN, THERE ARE NO WORDS TO 2619 02:10:17,109 --> 02:10:20,613 EXPRESS HOW MUCH I ADMIRE YOU, I 2620 02:10:20,613 --> 02:10:23,649 OWE YOU MORE THAN I COULD EVER 2621 02:10:23,649 --> 02:10:25,751 GIVE YOU BACK. 2622 02:10:25,751 --> 02:10:29,689 ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES, OH 2623 02:10:29,689 --> 02:10:31,757 CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN, YOU HAVE A 2624 02:10:31,757 --> 02:10:33,392 FRIEND FOR LIFE. 2625 02:10:33,392 --> 02:10:37,129 SO I WANT TO FIRST -- I WROTE A 2626 02:10:37,129 --> 02:10:43,035 FEW WEEKS AGO, I'M SORRY, I 2627 02:10:43,035 --> 02:10:49,508 WON'T TALK ABOUT HIV, BUT I'LL 2628 02:10:49,508 --> 02:10:51,377 TALK ABOUT ALPHAVIRUSES. 2629 02:10:51,377 --> 02:10:54,413 AND ALPHAVIRUSES ARE VERY, VERY 2630 02:10:54,413 --> 02:10:56,082 INTERESTING BECAUSE THEY ALLOW 2631 02:10:56,082 --> 02:10:57,483 ME TO KEEP STUDYING ASSEMBLY IN 2632 02:10:57,483 --> 02:10:59,351 A VERY DIFFERENT WAY FROM WHAT 2633 02:10:59,351 --> 02:11:03,522 DID I WITH ALAN. 2634 02:11:03,522 --> 02:11:05,391 THESE VIRUSES ARE AMAZING, TWO 2635 02:11:05,391 --> 02:11:08,427 LAYERS, SEPARATED BY A LIPID 2636 02:11:08,427 --> 02:11:09,195 BILAYER. 2637 02:11:09,195 --> 02:11:13,365 YOU CAN SEE HERE THE CORE 2638 02:11:13,365 --> 02:11:15,868 CONTAINS NUCLEIC ACID, 240 2639 02:11:15,868 --> 02:11:18,304 COPIES OF THE CAPSID PROTEIN. 2640 02:11:18,304 --> 02:11:19,872 OUTER LAYER CON TAINTS 80 2641 02:11:19,872 --> 02:11:22,241 TRIMERS OF HETERODIMERS OF THE 2642 02:11:22,241 --> 02:11:22,808 GLYCOPROTEINS. 2643 02:11:22,808 --> 02:11:24,210 TODAY I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 2644 02:11:24,210 --> 02:11:26,112 ABOUT A SMALL PROJECT TO 2645 02:11:26,112 --> 02:11:27,179 UNDERSTAND THE ASSEMBLY OF THE 2646 02:11:27,179 --> 02:11:31,550 CORE BECAUSE WHEN YOU TAKE THE 2647 02:11:31,550 --> 02:11:34,520 CURRENT DATA AND REMOVE DENSITY 2648 02:11:34,520 --> 02:11:37,022 FOR THE PLASMA MEMBRANE, WELL 2649 02:11:37,022 --> 02:11:39,859 VIRAL MEMBRANE AND GLYCOPROTEINS 2650 02:11:39,859 --> 02:11:45,998 YOU SEE THESE WIFFLE BALLS WITH 2651 02:11:45,998 --> 02:11:47,767 LARGE HOLES AND DISTANCES WHICH 2652 02:11:47,767 --> 02:11:48,400 BAFFLES ME. 2653 02:11:48,400 --> 02:11:53,005 TWENTY YEARS AGO OR MORE, 2654 02:11:53,005 --> 02:11:56,742 ANOTHER PERSON I ADMIRE A LOT 2655 02:11:56,742 --> 02:12:00,813 PUBLISHED THIS PAPER, SHE WAS 2656 02:12:00,813 --> 02:12:03,983 TRYING TO RECONSTRUCT AGAIN THE 2657 02:12:03,983 --> 02:12:05,618 CORE OF TWO ALPHAVIRUSES. 2658 02:12:05,618 --> 02:12:07,253 THIS IS AMAZINGLY SHE WAS ABLE 2659 02:12:07,253 --> 02:12:09,789 TO ABLE BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T DO 2660 02:12:09,789 --> 02:12:14,593 IT TO RESOLUTION BETTER THAN 30 2661 02:12:14,593 --> 02:12:19,732 ANGSTROMS, AT THAT TIME IT WAS 8 2662 02:12:19,732 --> 02:12:20,432 ANGSTROMS. 2663 02:12:20,432 --> 02:12:23,803 OFTEN SHE WAS COMPLETELY RIGHT, 2664 02:12:23,803 --> 02:12:25,871 INABILITY TO IMPROVE RESOLUTION 2665 02:12:25,871 --> 02:12:27,506 SUGGESTS CORE-LIKER PARTICLES 2666 02:12:27,506 --> 02:12:29,141 VARY SLIGHTLY IN STRUCTURE AMONG 2667 02:12:29,141 --> 02:12:36,816 THEMES SELVES AND MAY DEVIATE 2668 02:12:36,816 --> 02:12:38,250 FROM ACT ICOSAHEDRAL SYMMETRY. 2669 02:12:38,250 --> 02:12:43,956 IF YOU REMOVE THE GLYCOPROTEINS, 2670 02:12:43,956 --> 02:12:48,994 ISOLATE BEFORE THEY TARGET 2671 02:12:48,994 --> 02:12:50,429 GLYCOPROTEINS HOW THAT STRUCTURE 2672 02:12:50,429 --> 02:12:52,698 IS NOT SYMMETRIC? 2673 02:12:52,698 --> 02:12:54,900 SHE SHOWED A FEW YEARS LATER 2674 02:12:54,900 --> 02:12:59,171 PARTICLES ARE NOT EVENLY CLOSE 2675 02:12:59,171 --> 02:13:01,874 TO RESEMBLE SPEARICAL PARTICLES. 2676 02:13:01,874 --> 02:13:04,643 HIV MAKES A LOT OF MISTAKES, I 2677 02:13:04,643 --> 02:13:07,279 WONDER ARE THESE VIRUSES MAKING 2678 02:13:07,279 --> 02:13:08,147 MISTAKES LIKE HIV? 2679 02:13:08,147 --> 02:13:12,318 SO HERE IS A CORE WE'RE 2680 02:13:12,318 --> 02:13:13,285 STUDYING. 2681 02:13:13,285 --> 02:13:16,021 WE'RE ASSUMING FIRST IN HEXAMERS 2682 02:13:16,021 --> 02:13:26,465 AND PENTAMERS, THERE ARE A 2683 02:13:27,399 --> 02:13:29,268 COUPLE INTERACTIONS, INTERNAL 2684 02:13:29,268 --> 02:13:37,142 INTERACTIONS, AND IN THE HEXAMER 2685 02:13:37,142 --> 02:13:38,110 BECAUSE IT'S ASYMMETRIC, THE 2686 02:13:38,110 --> 02:13:39,879 INTERACTION IS NOT AT THE SAME 2687 02:13:39,879 --> 02:13:40,312 DISTANCE AS THIS. 2688 02:13:40,312 --> 02:13:42,748 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PENTAMER, 2689 02:13:42,748 --> 02:13:44,183 SAME PRINCIPLE, YOU SEE 2690 02:13:44,183 --> 02:13:45,584 INTERACTIONS ARE SIMILAR TO EACH 2691 02:13:45,584 --> 02:13:49,321 OTHER AND AGAIN THE SAME BASIC 2692 02:13:49,321 --> 02:13:55,127 AND AMINO ACIDS SEEM TO BE 2693 02:13:55,127 --> 02:13:57,096 PARTICIPATING IN THE ASSEMBLY OF 2694 02:13:57,096 --> 02:14:02,701 THE CAPSOMER, WE WANTED TO KNOW 2695 02:14:02,701 --> 02:14:05,137 IF THESE -- WHICH IT MAKES 2696 02:14:05,137 --> 02:14:08,040 SENSE, WE WANT SOMETHING STABLE, 2697 02:14:08,040 --> 02:14:10,976 NEUTRAL PH, BUT IT CAN FALL 2698 02:14:10,976 --> 02:14:14,280 APART WHEN IT BECOMES ACIDIC. 2699 02:14:14,280 --> 02:14:16,348 OUR IDEA, BECAUSE ALAN SAID IT 2700 02:14:16,348 --> 02:14:21,720 RIGHT, I WAS A PHYSICIST, FISCAL 2701 02:14:21,720 --> 02:14:26,292 'DEMIST, WE WANTED TO STUDY 2702 02:14:26,292 --> 02:14:30,029 INTERACTIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR 2703 02:14:30,029 --> 02:14:31,764 ASSEMBLY OF CAPSOMER. 2704 02:14:31,764 --> 02:14:40,673 BEFORE DOING MUTATIONS, WE 2705 02:14:40,673 --> 02:14:45,444 LOOKED AT OVER 1800 UNIQUE 2706 02:14:45,444 --> 02:14:49,148 SEQUENCES AND THIS IS AN RNA 2707 02:14:49,148 --> 02:14:50,983 VIRUS, QUITE SURPRISING, 2708 02:14:50,983 --> 02:14:53,118 CONSERVED IN 99.4% OF ALL 2709 02:14:53,118 --> 02:14:54,386 SEQUENCES FOR PATIENTS. 2710 02:14:54,386 --> 02:14:56,922 SO I THOUGHT, OKAY, THAT'S FINE. 2711 02:14:56,922 --> 02:14:57,589 HIGHLY CONSERVED. 2712 02:14:57,589 --> 02:15:01,527 THAT'S A GOOD STARTING POINT TO 2713 02:15:01,527 --> 02:15:02,428 DOING MUTATIONS. 2714 02:15:02,428 --> 02:15:05,130 BUT I'M ALWAYS SECOND GUESSING 2715 02:15:05,130 --> 02:15:05,798 MYSELF. 2716 02:15:05,798 --> 02:15:07,266 AND THEN, OKAY, WAIT, BEFORE 2717 02:15:07,266 --> 02:15:09,668 DOING ANY MUTATION LOOK AT 2718 02:15:09,668 --> 02:15:13,839 DIFFERENT ALPHAVIRUSES, THIS IS 2719 02:15:13,839 --> 02:15:22,781 JUST A LIST OF PHYLOGENETIC 2720 02:15:22,781 --> 02:15:23,482 TREE. 2721 02:15:23,482 --> 02:15:24,650 CryoEM OR X-RAY STRUCTURES. 2722 02:15:24,650 --> 02:15:27,953 LEFT-HAND SIDE IS ONE OF THE 2723 02:15:27,953 --> 02:15:29,688 CryoEM STRUCTURES, CAPSID 2724 02:15:29,688 --> 02:15:30,889 PROTEIN, I JUST HIGHLIGHTED FOUR 2725 02:15:30,889 --> 02:15:32,191 AMINO ACIDS I'M TALKING ABOUT 2726 02:15:32,191 --> 02:15:32,524 TODAY. 2727 02:15:32,524 --> 02:15:33,959 THERE ARE ANOTHER FOUR THAT HAVE 2728 02:15:33,959 --> 02:15:35,594 SOMETHING ELSE TO DO BUT I WON'T 2729 02:15:35,594 --> 02:15:36,695 TALK ABOUT TODAY. 2730 02:15:36,695 --> 02:15:39,198 AND THEN ON THE RIGHT IT'S AN 2731 02:15:39,198 --> 02:15:43,369 OVERLAP OF THE STRUCTURAL FOR 2732 02:15:43,369 --> 02:15:46,672 THE CAPSID PROTEIN OF CHIKV, AND 2733 02:15:46,672 --> 02:15:49,074 THEY ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER 2734 02:15:49,074 --> 02:15:50,809 GENETICALLY, THERE'S A 2735 02:15:50,809 --> 02:15:52,344 PERFECT -- ALMOST PERFECT MATCH 2736 02:15:52,344 --> 02:15:53,112 IN STRUCTURE. 2737 02:15:53,112 --> 02:15:55,647 WHEN YOU SEE BLUE AMINO ACID YOU 2738 02:15:55,647 --> 02:15:57,816 SEE BLUE AMINO ACID OR REGULAR 2739 02:15:57,816 --> 02:15:58,584 RED. 2740 02:15:58,584 --> 02:16:01,186 NOW WE HAVE STRUCTURE FOR EIGHT 2741 02:16:01,186 --> 02:16:04,823 OR NINE -- I FORGET HOW MANY 2742 02:16:04,823 --> 02:16:06,658 ALPHAVIRUSES. 2743 02:16:06,658 --> 02:16:08,594 WE USE ALPHAFOLD 2 AND 3 TO 2744 02:16:08,594 --> 02:16:11,163 PREDICT THE REST OF THE 2745 02:16:11,163 --> 02:16:15,968 STRUCTURE, ONE OF THE MOST 2746 02:16:15,968 --> 02:16:17,469 DISTANT ALPHAVIRUSES, AND 2747 02:16:17,469 --> 02:16:22,875 THERE'S SOME CHANGES FOR EXAMPLE 2748 02:16:22,875 --> 02:16:25,411 LYSINE, HERE HIGHLY CONSERVED IN 2749 02:16:25,411 --> 02:16:28,714 OLD WORLD ALPHAVIRUSES, NOW 2750 02:16:28,714 --> 02:16:30,215 INSTEAD OF BEING POSITIVE, IT'S 2751 02:16:30,215 --> 02:16:30,649 NEGATIVE. 2752 02:16:30,649 --> 02:16:33,886 WE START USING THIS APPROACH OF 2753 02:16:33,886 --> 02:16:34,820 MATCHING STRUCTURES, BECAUSE IF 2754 02:16:34,820 --> 02:16:38,924 YOU LOOK AT THE PRIMARY SEQUENCE 2755 02:16:38,924 --> 02:16:40,192 OF CAPSID PROTEINS THEY ARE 2756 02:16:40,192 --> 02:16:44,229 DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER. 2757 02:16:44,229 --> 02:16:46,098 WE STARTED OVERLAPPING ALL THE 2758 02:16:46,098 --> 02:16:47,399 STRUCTURES SO WE COULD USE THEM 2759 02:16:47,399 --> 02:16:52,571 AS PINPOINTS TO BE ABLE TO DO A 2760 02:16:52,571 --> 02:16:53,439 PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS THAT I 2761 02:16:53,439 --> 02:16:55,307 WON'T TALK ABOUT TODAY. 2762 02:16:55,307 --> 02:16:56,608 ALPHAVIRUSS, YOU CAN DIVIDE THEM 2763 02:16:56,608 --> 02:17:00,679 AS OLD WORLD OR NEW WORLD. 2764 02:17:00,679 --> 02:17:05,050 FOR THOSE WHO WE KNOW THE 2765 02:17:05,050 --> 02:17:07,553 MAMMALIAN HOST, BY MOSQUITOES, 2766 02:17:07,553 --> 02:17:08,654 INVERTEBRATES, VERTEBRATES. 2767 02:17:08,654 --> 02:17:11,723 OLD WORLD MEANS ANY ALPHAVIRUS 2768 02:17:11,723 --> 02:17:13,358 THAT FITS THE WINDOW OF 2769 02:17:13,358 --> 02:17:14,660 MAMMALIAN HOST. 2770 02:17:14,660 --> 02:17:17,930 THAT IS FOUND MANY CONTINENT 2771 02:17:17,930 --> 02:17:21,233 EXCEPT AMERICAS, NEW WORLD JUST 2772 02:17:21,233 --> 02:17:22,201 RESTRICTED TO AMERICAS. 2773 02:17:22,201 --> 02:17:25,804 WE HAVE A FEW ALPHAVIRUSES FOUND 2774 02:17:25,804 --> 02:17:28,440 IN MOSQUITOES, NO IDEA THE 2775 02:17:28,440 --> 02:17:32,911 VERTEBRATE HOST. 2776 02:17:32,911 --> 02:17:33,912 ALSO ALPHAVIRUSES THAT AFFECT 2777 02:17:33,912 --> 02:17:36,415 FISH AND SEA LIONS. 2778 02:17:36,415 --> 02:17:39,818 WHAT'S SURPRISING FOR OLD WORLD, 2779 02:17:39,818 --> 02:17:41,453 100 CONSERVED, DOESN'T MATTER IF 2780 02:17:41,453 --> 02:17:46,058 THE VIRUS IS FROM AFRICA OR 2781 02:17:46,058 --> 02:17:48,260 NETHERLANDS OR NEW ZEALAND, 2782 02:17:48,260 --> 02:17:50,095 THESE FOUR AMINO ACIDS ARE 2783 02:17:50,095 --> 02:17:50,462 CONSERVED. 2784 02:17:50,462 --> 02:17:52,965 IF YOU TAKE NEW WORLD 2785 02:17:52,965 --> 02:17:57,636 ALPHAVIRUS, IF TAMPA, AND FROM 2786 02:17:57,636 --> 02:18:03,575 VENEZUELA, THEN THESE ARE 2787 02:18:03,575 --> 02:18:06,445 INTERACTIONS OF THE CAPSOMER NOT 2788 02:18:06,445 --> 02:18:06,879 CONSERVED. 2789 02:18:06,879 --> 02:18:09,581 THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THE 2790 02:18:09,581 --> 02:18:14,853 VERTEBRATE HOST, THREE OF FOUR 2791 02:18:14,853 --> 02:18:16,188 CON SEARCHED. 2792 02:18:16,188 --> 02:18:20,225 SUGGESTING STRONG EVOLUTIONARY 2793 02:18:20,225 --> 02:18:23,195 PRESSURE ON INTERACTIONS, WHY 2794 02:18:23,195 --> 02:18:26,598 ARE NOT INNER INTERACTIONS 2795 02:18:26,598 --> 02:18:27,900 HIGHLY CONSERVED? 2796 02:18:27,900 --> 02:18:30,068 WE FOUND HIGHLY AMOUNT OF 2797 02:18:30,068 --> 02:18:34,339 CONSERVATION, THEN I WAS BRAVE 2798 02:18:34,339 --> 02:18:37,743 ENOUGH TO START DOING 2799 02:18:37,743 --> 02:18:43,115 MUTAGENESIS THANKS TO MITCH IN 2800 02:18:43,115 --> 02:18:48,253 ALAN'S LAB, HEAD OF MOLECULAR 2801 02:18:48,253 --> 02:18:50,222 CLONING. 2802 02:18:50,222 --> 02:18:52,090 WE CONSTRUCTED A PLASMATE, WE 2803 02:18:52,090 --> 02:18:54,826 WAIT 24 HOURS, WATCH THEM WELL, 2804 02:18:54,826 --> 02:18:58,263 WAIT ANOTHER 24 HOURS, TAKE THE 2805 02:18:58,263 --> 02:19:00,132 SUPERNATANT AND FREEZE IT, TAKE 2806 02:19:00,132 --> 02:19:03,235 IT AND INFECT NAIVE CELLS, DO 2807 02:19:03,235 --> 02:19:05,370 THESE IN 48 WELL PLATES. 2808 02:19:05,370 --> 02:19:08,974 AND WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE THESE 2809 02:19:08,974 --> 02:19:10,943 AUTOMATIC MICROSCOPES BECAUSE 2810 02:19:10,943 --> 02:19:12,044 IT'S FLUORESCENTS MICROSCOPE, 2811 02:19:12,044 --> 02:19:16,315 BECAUSE MUCH FLUORESCENT GENE WE 2812 02:19:16,315 --> 02:19:22,788 CAN DO SEVERAL RAL REPLICATES FR 2813 02:19:22,788 --> 02:19:24,189 EACH EXPERIMENT. 2814 02:19:24,189 --> 02:19:26,491 WHATEVER WE FIND INTERESTING WE 2815 02:19:26,491 --> 02:19:34,499 TAKE TO ELECTRON MICROSCOPE. 2816 02:19:34,499 --> 02:19:36,468 SO THIS IS INTERACTION BETWEEN 2817 02:19:36,468 --> 02:19:41,106 AMINO ACID HERE CONSERVED IN 2818 02:19:41,106 --> 02:19:46,211 93%, THIS ONE 98%, WE CHANGE 2819 02:19:46,211 --> 02:19:50,582 BASIC AMINO ACID OR REVERSE THE 2820 02:19:50,582 --> 02:19:52,884 CHARGES SO THERE'S NO 2821 02:19:52,884 --> 02:19:54,319 ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION BUT NOW 2822 02:19:54,319 --> 02:19:57,256 DON'T HAVE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE 2823 02:19:57,256 --> 02:19:57,522 INTERFACE. 2824 02:19:57,522 --> 02:20:02,060 ALL THIS WORK HAS BEEN DONE SO 2825 02:20:02,060 --> 02:20:12,604 FAR, MOST BY UNDERGRAD STUDENTS. 2826 02:20:16,174 --> 02:20:17,976 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE 2827 02:20:17,976 --> 02:20:20,045 HERE FOR THE MUTANTS YOU SEE 2828 02:20:20,045 --> 02:20:23,115 REPULSION, SO THAT MAKES SENSE. 2829 02:20:23,115 --> 02:20:24,416 HERE YOU SEE REPULSION. 2830 02:20:24,416 --> 02:20:25,284 MAKES SENSE. 2831 02:20:25,284 --> 02:20:29,354 BUT HERE THERE'S NO REPULSION 2832 02:20:29,354 --> 02:20:31,423 BUT NOW WE DESTROY ABILITY OF 2833 02:20:31,423 --> 02:20:40,732 THE CAPSID PROTEIN TO BEHAVE 2834 02:20:40,732 --> 02:20:43,669 LIKE A DIPOLS, DEPENDS ON THE 2835 02:20:43,669 --> 02:20:44,970 ANGLE, VERY IMPORTANT FOR PART 2836 02:20:44,970 --> 02:20:46,305 OF THE STORY. 2837 02:20:46,305 --> 02:20:48,807 THEN WE SAY, OKAY, WHAT'S WRONG 2838 02:20:48,807 --> 02:20:49,808 WITH THESE VIRUSES? 2839 02:20:49,808 --> 02:20:52,010 WITHIN THE LAB, THANKS TO 2840 02:20:52,010 --> 02:20:58,283 TRAINING I RECEIVED AT NCI. 2841 02:20:58,283 --> 02:21:03,088 YOU CAN SEE BETWEEN TWO CELLS, 2842 02:21:03,088 --> 02:21:03,855 BUDDING PARTICLES. 2843 02:21:03,855 --> 02:21:06,591 AND THE COOL THING ABOUT ALPHA 2844 02:21:06,591 --> 02:21:10,963 VIRUSES, HOW CAN I FIND A CELL 2845 02:21:10,963 --> 02:21:12,264 THAT IS INFECTED? 2846 02:21:12,264 --> 02:21:19,037 THINGS IN THE CIRCLES ARE TYPE 2 2847 02:21:19,037 --> 02:21:21,239 WHERE THE GENOME IS REPLICATED, 2848 02:21:21,239 --> 02:21:26,178 ISOLATED FROM THE REST OF THE 2849 02:21:26,178 --> 02:21:28,146 CELL, SO CGAS CANNOT DETECT OR 2850 02:21:28,146 --> 02:21:30,882 STING, I DON'T REMEMBER, DOESN'T 2851 02:21:30,882 --> 02:21:32,851 MATTER, BUT FOUND THE VIRAL RNA. 2852 02:21:32,851 --> 02:21:36,121 IN THIS USEFUL BECAUSE WE SEE OR 2853 02:21:36,121 --> 02:21:38,323 LOOK FOR CELLS THAT HAVE THESE 2854 02:21:38,323 --> 02:21:41,159 REPLICATION SITES AND WE LOOK TO 2855 02:21:41,159 --> 02:21:43,562 THE -- MOVE AND LOOK TO THE 2856 02:21:43,562 --> 02:21:45,197 PLASMA MEMBRANE TO SEE IF WE CAN 2857 02:21:45,197 --> 02:21:46,431 FIND VIRUSES. 2858 02:21:46,431 --> 02:21:49,267 FOR THE MUTANTS WHERE WE CHANGE 2859 02:21:49,267 --> 02:21:52,871 POSITIVE FOR NEGATIVE AMINO 2860 02:21:52,871 --> 02:21:54,272 ACID, OUTER INTERACTION, WE HAD 2861 02:21:54,272 --> 02:21:58,810 TO LOOK FOR A LOT OF CELLS UNTIL 2862 02:21:58,810 --> 02:22:02,614 WE FOUND CYTOPATHIC VESICLES, 2863 02:22:02,614 --> 02:22:04,716 THIS IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL. 2864 02:22:04,716 --> 02:22:09,321 LARSON IN SWEDEN HAS DONE 2865 02:22:09,321 --> 02:22:10,222 BEAUTIFUL WORK. 2866 02:22:10,222 --> 02:22:11,623 OUR SURPRISE WE FOUND TUBES, 2867 02:22:11,623 --> 02:22:12,524 LONG TUBES. 2868 02:22:12,524 --> 02:22:16,228 THESE TUBES ARE NOT PRESENT IN 2869 02:22:16,228 --> 02:22:17,963 UNINFECTED CELLS, OR EVEN 2870 02:22:17,963 --> 02:22:20,499 INFECTED CELL WITH WILD TYPE, 2871 02:22:20,499 --> 02:22:22,467 TUBES ARE REALLY COOL BECAUSE -- 2872 02:22:22,467 --> 02:22:29,341 THIS GOES BACK TO CASPER, WELL, 2873 02:22:29,341 --> 02:22:36,281 GOES BACK TO IF YOU WANT TO MAKE 2874 02:22:36,281 --> 02:22:42,053 THIS, YOU ONLY NEED 12 PENTERS 2875 02:22:42,053 --> 02:22:42,554 PENTAMERS. 2876 02:22:42,554 --> 02:22:46,758 IF YOU WANT TO MAKE LARGER YOU 2877 02:22:46,758 --> 02:22:48,026 NEED HEXAMERS, A DISCRETE 2878 02:22:48,026 --> 02:22:50,662 NUMBER, I WON'T DESCRIBE HOW 2879 02:22:50,662 --> 02:22:51,263 THAT HAPPENS. 2880 02:22:51,263 --> 02:22:54,966 IF YOU ONLY HAVE HEXAMERS YOU 2881 02:22:54,966 --> 02:22:57,803 GET TWO POSSIBLE STRUCTURES, 2882 02:22:57,803 --> 02:23:00,338 PLANAR SHEETS OR TUBES, LIKE 2883 02:23:00,338 --> 02:23:01,640 CARBON NANOTUBES. 2884 02:23:01,640 --> 02:23:04,843 SO OUR HYPOTHESIS NOW WE'RE 2885 02:23:04,843 --> 02:23:10,949 DOING SIMULATIONS WITH ROY AND 2886 02:23:10,949 --> 02:23:15,654 VICTOR, IN MADRID, TRYING TO SEE 2887 02:23:15,654 --> 02:23:18,723 IF WE CAN SIMULATE ASSEMBLY 2888 02:23:18,723 --> 02:23:20,025 SUGGESTING MUTATION HERE BY 2889 02:23:20,025 --> 02:23:22,561 CHANGING POSITIVE FOR NEGATIVE 2890 02:23:22,561 --> 02:23:23,862 AMINO ACID IS DETABLIZING 2891 02:23:23,862 --> 02:23:30,235 ABILITY OF THE PROTEIN TO FORM 2892 02:23:30,235 --> 02:23:32,304 PENTAMERS BUT NOT HEXAMERS. 2893 02:23:32,304 --> 02:23:37,876 THIS IS A SIMULATION FROM ORAZIO 2894 02:23:37,876 --> 02:23:41,480 VICTOR, ALL SIMULATIONS, 2895 02:23:41,480 --> 02:23:42,347 PRELIMINARY RESULTS. 2896 02:23:42,347 --> 02:23:44,883 AND THE PENTAMER IS NOT -- WILD 2897 02:23:44,883 --> 02:23:47,285 TYPE IS NOT VERY STABLE. 2898 02:23:47,285 --> 02:23:49,454 THAT HAS TO DO WITH ARTIFACTS 2899 02:23:49,454 --> 02:23:52,591 THAT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO GO 2900 02:23:52,591 --> 02:23:54,359 OVER THAT. 2901 02:23:54,359 --> 02:23:57,362 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MUTANT, IT 2902 02:23:57,362 --> 02:23:58,797 IMMEDIATELY FALLS APART. 2903 02:23:58,797 --> 02:24:02,067 YOU CAN SEE IT FALLING APART, 2904 02:24:02,067 --> 02:24:05,003 CONFIRMING THAT THE PENTAMER 2905 02:24:05,003 --> 02:24:07,439 UNDER THIS SIMULATION IS 2906 02:24:07,439 --> 02:24:08,507 UNSTABLE. 2907 02:24:08,507 --> 02:24:14,312 STILL WAITING FOR HORACI, TO 2908 02:24:14,312 --> 02:24:15,614 HAVE RESULT FOR HEXAMERS AND 2909 02:24:15,614 --> 02:24:19,017 THEN DO SIMULATION TO UNDERSTAND 2910 02:24:19,017 --> 02:24:20,118 HOW THIS FORMS HEXAMERS. 2911 02:24:20,118 --> 02:24:21,119 IT MAKES SENSE. 2912 02:24:21,119 --> 02:24:22,954 REMEMBER, THIS AMINO ACID IS 2913 02:24:22,954 --> 02:24:23,655 HIGHLY CONSERVED. 2914 02:24:23,655 --> 02:24:26,024 SO THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE 2915 02:24:26,024 --> 02:24:27,325 ANYTIME NATURE, THESE MUTATIONS. 2916 02:24:27,325 --> 02:24:30,061 NOW WHEN WE LOOK AT THE PARTNER 2917 02:24:30,061 --> 02:24:37,068 OF 172 AND CHANGE THAT'S ACID R 2918 02:24:37,068 --> 02:24:40,005 A BASE, ANOTHER PROJECT WE'RE 2919 02:24:40,005 --> 02:24:42,541 STUDYING BUDDING WITH U.C. 2920 02:24:42,541 --> 02:24:44,943 RIVERSIDE, SO WE HAVE 2921 02:24:44,943 --> 02:24:48,313 CHARACTERIZED BUDDING OF THE 2922 02:24:48,313 --> 02:24:49,414 VIRUS QUITE EXTENSIVELY AND HAVE 2923 02:24:49,414 --> 02:24:53,785 PAPERS SOON TO BE REVIEWED SOON. 2924 02:24:53,785 --> 02:24:59,491 WHAT WE FIND THE CORES STOP AT 2925 02:24:59,491 --> 02:25:04,629 PLASMA MEMBRANE, TURNS OUT THE 2926 02:25:04,629 --> 02:25:06,464 LAB IN SANFORD SHOWED THESE HERE 2927 02:25:06,464 --> 02:25:13,939 AND HERE, IN THE CYTOPLASM, NOT 2928 02:25:13,939 --> 02:25:21,279 FORMING HEXAGONAL SHEETS. 2929 02:25:21,279 --> 02:25:28,620 WHEN THEY INTERACT THE CORE -- 2930 02:25:28,620 --> 02:25:30,055 IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT 2931 02:25:30,055 --> 02:25:34,125 GLYCOPROTEINS IN ORDER TO -- 2932 02:25:34,125 --> 02:25:35,527 THEY ARE TOUCHING THE CAPSID 2933 02:25:35,527 --> 02:25:39,497 PROTEIN AND CORE VERY STRONGLY, 2934 02:25:39,497 --> 02:25:42,968 THEY NEED TO BIND. 2935 02:25:42,968 --> 02:25:46,705 SO WHILE WE'RE ASSUMING, THESE 2936 02:25:46,705 --> 02:25:56,114 CORES THAT WE'RE FORMING CANNOT 2937 02:25:56,114 --> 02:25:57,215 REANEAL THEMSELVES. 2938 02:25:57,215 --> 02:26:01,720 WE LOOK AT SOME MUTATIONS IN THE 2939 02:26:01,720 --> 02:26:04,689 PENTAMERS AND HEXAMERS, STILL 2940 02:26:04,689 --> 02:26:07,525 MISSING A FEW MUTATIONS, LYSINE 2941 02:26:07,525 --> 02:26:09,728 TO USINE IS NOT BAD, WE FIND 2942 02:26:09,728 --> 02:26:14,766 THIS IN NEW WORLD ALPHAVIRUSES, 2943 02:26:14,766 --> 02:26:16,501 SURPRISED CHANGING BASIC FOR 2944 02:26:16,501 --> 02:26:18,470 ACIDIC WAS NOT THAT BAD. 2945 02:26:18,470 --> 02:26:22,974 BUT IF YOU LOOK, IF WE DO THE 2946 02:26:22,974 --> 02:26:27,345 OPPOSITE CHANGE IN 184, CHANGE 2947 02:26:27,345 --> 02:26:28,747 ACID FOR HYDROPHOBIC, COULD BE 2948 02:26:28,747 --> 02:26:30,949 LOSING A PROTEIN, THE VIRUS IS 2949 02:26:30,949 --> 02:26:31,916 PRETTY MUCH DEAD. 2950 02:26:31,916 --> 02:26:33,351 SEEMS TO ME THAT ONE AMINO ACID 2951 02:26:33,351 --> 02:26:35,086 IS MORE CRITICAL THAN THE OTHER, 2952 02:26:35,086 --> 02:26:42,661 AND WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT 2953 02:26:42,661 --> 02:26:42,994 MEANS. 2954 02:26:42,994 --> 02:26:44,529 SO, WE'RE THINKING OF WHAT'S 2955 02:26:44,529 --> 02:26:47,298 GOING ON, AND WE SAY, WELL, THIS 2956 02:26:47,298 --> 02:26:48,900 IS A PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY PROJECT, 2957 02:26:48,900 --> 02:26:50,435 BUT THESE ARE VIRUSES SO LET'S 2958 02:26:50,435 --> 02:26:51,870 THINK ABOUT THE HOST. 2959 02:26:51,870 --> 02:27:00,812 IT TURNS OUT THE OLD WORLD 2960 02:27:00,812 --> 02:27:02,247 ALPHAVIRUSES ARE NON-LETHAL. 2961 02:27:02,247 --> 02:27:04,549 THE DISEASE IS NASTY BUT YOU 2962 02:27:04,549 --> 02:27:06,851 WON'T DIE FROM CHIKUNGUNYA. 2963 02:27:06,851 --> 02:27:08,286 IF YOU'RE INFECTED, A HORSE 2964 02:27:08,286 --> 02:27:10,255 INFECTED WITH A NEW WORLD 2965 02:27:10,255 --> 02:27:13,425 ALPHAVIRUS, YOU MIGHT DIE MOST 2966 02:27:13,425 --> 02:27:15,493 LIKELY FROM ENCEPHALITIS, HIGHLY 2967 02:27:15,493 --> 02:27:15,727 LETHAL. 2968 02:27:15,727 --> 02:27:18,997 THEY ARE DIFFERENT IN THE WAY 2969 02:27:18,997 --> 02:27:21,633 THEY BEHAVE IN MAMMALS. 2970 02:27:21,633 --> 02:27:30,408 SO A COUPLE YEARS AGO KAEBLER AT 2971 02:27:30,408 --> 02:27:33,244 GUTTERS ARE DID CryoEM OF 2972 02:27:33,244 --> 02:27:36,748 CHIKUNGUNYA, AND HE WAS AN 2973 02:27:36,748 --> 02:27:40,819 HONEST MICROSCOPIST. 2974 02:27:40,819 --> 02:27:41,386 BEFORE DOING RECONSTRUCTION 2975 02:27:41,386 --> 02:27:42,754 REALIZED THERE WERE FOUR 2976 02:27:42,754 --> 02:27:44,422 POPULATIONS OF PARTICLES, IN 2977 02:27:44,422 --> 02:27:48,026 BLACK NORMAL SIZE, THEN SMALLER 2978 02:27:48,026 --> 02:27:52,197 ONE, ONE IN YELLOW, LARGER ONES 2979 02:27:52,197 --> 02:27:54,499 IN GREEN, AND MULTI-CORE IN RED. 2980 02:27:54,499 --> 02:27:57,235 TURNS OUT HE MADE THESE 2981 02:27:57,235 --> 02:27:59,104 INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS THAT HE 2982 02:27:59,104 --> 02:28:01,706 HASN'T TAKEN FURTHER FROM THIS 2983 02:28:01,706 --> 02:28:03,942 TABLE THAT CHIKUNGUNYA MAKES A 2984 02:28:03,942 --> 02:28:07,846 MISTAKE IN 4% OF THE PARTICLES 2985 02:28:07,846 --> 02:28:11,883 BUT VEEV HIGHLY LETHAL IN TEN 2986 02:28:11,883 --> 02:28:12,784 AND EEEV IN 12%. 2987 02:28:12,784 --> 02:28:17,155 WHEN YOU LOOK AT INTERACTIONS, 2988 02:28:17,155 --> 02:28:21,192 YOU SEE EEEV INSTEAD OF HAVING 2989 02:28:21,192 --> 02:28:23,261 STRONG ELECTROSTATIC 2990 02:28:23,261 --> 02:28:24,362 INTERACTIONS NOW YOU CHARGE 2991 02:28:24,362 --> 02:28:32,370 POLAR AMINO ACID FOR 2992 02:28:32,370 --> 02:28:34,005 NON-POLAR -- SORRY, NON-POLAR, 2993 02:28:34,005 --> 02:28:36,741 NOW HAVE YOU TWO HYDROPHOBIC 2994 02:28:36,741 --> 02:28:37,275 INTERACTIONS. 2995 02:28:37,275 --> 02:28:40,011 WE HAVE PROPOSED, WELL, RECENTLY 2996 02:28:40,011 --> 02:28:42,080 POSTED THIS QUESTION IN JOURNAL 2997 02:28:42,080 --> 02:28:46,251 OF VIROLOGY THAT ARE MISTAKES IN 2998 02:28:46,251 --> 02:28:50,255 ASSEMBLY A WAY TO ATTENUATE 2999 02:28:50,255 --> 02:28:51,189 HIGHLY PATHOGENIC ALPHAVIRUSES 3000 02:28:51,189 --> 02:28:54,125 AND IS INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO 3001 02:28:54,125 --> 02:28:56,428 AMINO ACIDS UPON FOR FIDELITY OF 3002 02:28:56,428 --> 02:28:57,595 ASSEMBLY PROCESS OR DO WE NEED 3003 02:28:57,595 --> 02:29:01,466 TO FIND MORE AMINO ACIDS? 3004 02:29:01,466 --> 02:29:02,467 AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER 3005 02:29:02,467 --> 02:29:03,868 FOUR SET OF AMINO ACIDS BUT I 3006 02:29:03,868 --> 02:29:06,371 DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO TELL 3007 02:29:06,371 --> 02:29:08,039 YOU ABOUT THOSE. 3008 02:29:08,039 --> 02:29:09,974 SO JUST TO FINISH HOPEFULLY ON 3009 02:29:09,974 --> 02:29:15,146 TIME, WE HAVE FOUND HIGHLY 3010 02:29:15,146 --> 02:29:16,948 CONSERVED -- THAT THESE ARE 3011 02:29:16,948 --> 02:29:19,083 HIGHLY CONSERVED AND PRETTY MUCH 3012 02:29:19,083 --> 02:29:20,485 ANY MUTATIONS HERE KILL THE 3013 02:29:20,485 --> 02:29:22,987 VIRUSES, I SHOWED THREE BUT WE 3014 02:29:22,987 --> 02:29:24,322 HAVE MORE. 3015 02:29:24,322 --> 02:29:26,825 THAT THE INNER INTERACTIONS ARE 3016 02:29:26,825 --> 02:29:28,693 ONLY CONSERVED OLD WORLD 3017 02:29:28,693 --> 02:29:31,896 ALPHAVIRUSES, NOT CONSERVED IN 3018 02:29:31,896 --> 02:29:33,865 OTHER ALPHAVIRUSES SO THE VIRUS 3019 02:29:33,865 --> 02:29:35,099 IS TOLERANT TO MUTATIONS HERE, 3020 02:29:35,099 --> 02:29:37,035 NOT TO ALL OF THEM. 3021 02:29:37,035 --> 02:29:39,437 IN FACT, THEY ARE NOT CONSERVED 3022 02:29:39,437 --> 02:29:41,840 THE SAME WAY. 3023 02:29:41,840 --> 02:29:47,545 184 IS MORE CONSERVED THAN 177, 3024 02:29:47,545 --> 02:29:50,281 AND 184 IS LESS TOLERANT TO 3025 02:29:50,281 --> 02:29:51,149 MUTATION THAN 177. 3026 02:29:51,149 --> 02:29:52,617 RELATION BETWEEN DEGREE OF 3027 02:29:52,617 --> 02:29:54,652 CONSERVATION OF THESE AMINO 3028 02:29:54,652 --> 02:29:56,187 ACIDS IN NATURE AND WHAT ARE WE 3029 02:29:56,187 --> 02:29:57,489 DOING IN THE LAB. 3030 02:29:57,489 --> 02:30:07,365 AND THE FINAL QUESTION THAT IS 3031 02:30:07,365 --> 02:30:09,100 REALLY PUZZLING, ARE MAY TAKES 3032 02:30:09,100 --> 02:30:14,305 IN ASSEMBLY A WAY TO ATTENUATE 3033 02:30:14,305 --> 02:30:19,944 HIGHLY PATHOGENIC VIRUS, NOW 3034 02:30:19,944 --> 02:30:20,945 CHIKUNGUNYA, ALSO MUTATING VEEV 3035 02:30:20,945 --> 02:30:24,449 TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE CHIKUNGUNA 3036 02:30:24,449 --> 02:30:27,952 BUT ONLY THE CAPSID PROTEIN TO 3037 02:30:27,952 --> 02:30:38,363 SEE IF WE CAN PROVE THE 3038 02:30:40,064 --> 02:30:40,565 HYPOTHESIS. 3039 02:30:40,565 --> 02:30:45,136 THESE ARE THE PEOPLE HERE. 3040 02:30:45,136 --> 02:30:47,672 CAROLINA, MIGUEL, WORK DONE IN 3041 02:30:47,672 --> 02:30:50,642 PART WITH JUAN AND ROYA AND 3042 02:30:50,642 --> 02:30:51,175 VICTOR. 3043 02:30:51,175 --> 02:30:54,612 THIS IS FUNDING AGENCIES THAT 3044 02:30:54,612 --> 02:30:55,813 SUPPORT OUR PROJECTS. 3045 02:30:55,813 --> 02:30:58,883 I HAVE TO THANK YOU FOR 3046 02:30:58,883 --> 02:31:00,351 EVERYTHING, ALAN. 3047 02:31:00,351 --> 02:31:01,686 GOOD LUCK. 3048 02:31:01,686 --> 02:31:04,789 AND I COULDN'T -- I COULDN'T 3049 02:31:04,789 --> 02:31:06,257 HAVE MORE LUCK BECAUSE WHEN I 3050 02:31:06,257 --> 02:31:09,227 MET YOU MY LIFE REALLY, REALLY 3051 02:31:09,227 --> 02:31:10,662 CHANGED. 3052 02:31:10,662 --> 02:31:13,831 AND I HOPE I HAD -- I WAS NOT 3053 02:31:13,831 --> 02:31:14,365 OVER TIME. 3054 02:31:14,365 --> 02:31:16,200 AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3055 02:31:16,200 --> 02:31:17,769 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY 3056 02:31:17,769 --> 02:31:19,971 QUESTIONS. 3057 02:31:19,971 --> 02:31:25,977 3058 02:31:25,977 --> 02:31:29,714 3059 02:31:29,714 --> 02:31:30,682 >> CALL OUT IF YOU HAVE 3060 02:31:30,682 --> 02:31:32,884 QUESTIONS. 3061 02:31:32,884 --> 02:31:39,590 3062 02:31:39,590 --> 02:31:44,929 3063 02:31:44,929 --> 02:31:45,129 YEAH. 3064 02:31:45,129 --> 02:31:49,334 >> NICE TALK. 3065 02:31:49,334 --> 02:31:55,673 WE FOUND THAT DEFECTS CAN 3066 02:31:55,673 --> 02:31:59,610 FACILITATE DISASSOCIATION. 3067 02:31:59,610 --> 02:32:01,245 SO, ARE YOU SEEING YOUR 3068 02:32:01,245 --> 02:32:03,014 PARTICLES WITH LESSER ABILITY TO 3069 02:32:03,014 --> 02:32:08,453 ASSEMBLY ALSO ABLE TO 3070 02:32:08,453 --> 02:32:09,354 DISASSEMBLE MORE READILY. 3071 02:32:09,354 --> 02:32:10,321 >> GOOD QUESTION. 3072 02:32:10,321 --> 02:32:11,623 WHEN THEY HAVE PROTEINS, NO. 3073 02:32:11,623 --> 02:32:13,791 WE HAVE DONE LOTS OF 3074 02:32:13,791 --> 02:32:14,092 EXPERIMENTS. 3075 02:32:14,092 --> 02:32:17,595 BUT WHEN WE REMOVE THE 3076 02:32:17,595 --> 02:32:19,397 GLYCOPROTEINS, THEN THEY WANT TO 3077 02:32:19,397 --> 02:32:21,933 MAKE LOTS OF MISTAKES, THEY FALL 3078 02:32:21,933 --> 02:32:30,341 APART IMMEDIATELY, THE ONES THAT 3079 02:32:30,341 --> 02:32:33,511 MAKE MISTAKES. 3080 02:32:33,511 --> 02:32:35,513 IT'S MORE ASSEMBLY. 3081 02:32:35,513 --> 02:32:38,783 ONE CAVEAT, WE'RE NOW DOING 3082 02:32:38,783 --> 02:32:39,851 EXPERIMENTS, HOW THEY 3083 02:32:39,851 --> 02:32:40,752 DISASSEMBLE IN THE LYSOSOME 3084 02:32:40,752 --> 02:32:45,456 BECAUSE THEY MIGHT FALL APART 3085 02:32:45,456 --> 02:32:48,226 EITHER IN THE LYSOSOME, 3086 02:32:48,226 --> 02:32:51,696 RELATIVELY HIGHER PACE, COULD BE 3087 02:32:51,696 --> 02:32:57,235 CAUSING LESS INFECTIOUS. 3088 02:32:57,235 --> 02:32:58,036 3089 02:32:58,036 --> 02:32:59,203 I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MAKES 3090 02:32:59,203 --> 02:33:02,740 SENSE. 3091 02:33:02,740 --> 02:33:04,709 >> OTHER QUESTIONS, YES? 3092 02:33:04,709 --> 02:33:07,345 >> YEAH, SO I DIDN'T QUITE 3093 02:33:07,345 --> 02:33:10,815 UNDERSTAND WHY THERE'S SO MUCH 3094 02:33:10,815 --> 02:33:12,717 MORE VARIABILITY IN THE CAPSID 3095 02:33:12,717 --> 02:33:15,086 PROTEIN OF THE ALPHAVIRUSES IN 3096 02:33:15,086 --> 02:33:18,956 THE NEW WORLD VIRUSES VERSUS OLD 3097 02:33:18,956 --> 02:33:19,157 WORLD. 3098 02:33:19,157 --> 02:33:21,893 >> OH, SO WE DON'T KNOW. 3099 02:33:21,893 --> 02:33:25,196 WE HAVE FINISHED NOW A 3100 02:33:25,196 --> 02:33:28,466 PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS, AND IT IS 3101 02:33:28,466 --> 02:33:28,800 AMAZING. 3102 02:33:28,800 --> 02:33:35,773 ALPHAVIRUSS STARTED AND WE HAVE 3103 02:33:35,773 --> 02:33:37,442 NOW RECONSTRUCTED SEVERAL 3104 02:33:37,442 --> 02:33:39,010 ANCESTORS AND STARTED VARIABLE. 3105 02:33:39,010 --> 02:33:43,448 OUR GUESS WAS AT THE BEGINNING 3106 02:33:43,448 --> 02:33:45,650 HIGHLY PATHOGENIC, AT SOME 3107 02:33:45,650 --> 02:33:49,153 POINT, SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT 3108 02:33:49,153 --> 02:33:51,556 ALPHAVIRUSES BECAME LESS 3109 02:33:51,556 --> 02:33:52,023 PATHOGENIC. 3110 02:33:52,023 --> 02:33:54,625 AND A WAY TO -- OUR HYPOTHESIS 3111 02:33:54,625 --> 02:33:57,028 IS THAT THAT LED THEM TO 3112 02:33:57,028 --> 02:33:58,996 STABILIZE A CAPSID AND THAT 3113 02:33:58,996 --> 02:34:02,266 ALLOWED THEM TO SPLIT ALL 3114 02:34:02,266 --> 02:34:05,136 OVER -- SPREAD ALL OVER THE 3115 02:34:05,136 --> 02:34:05,670 WORLD. 3116 02:34:05,670 --> 02:34:09,173 INTERACTIONS IN PAKISTAN AND 3117 02:34:09,173 --> 02:34:10,842 UGANDA, IT'S UNCANNY, SUSTAINED. 3118 02:34:10,842 --> 02:34:13,444 BUT NOT IN THE AMERICAS. 3119 02:34:13,444 --> 02:34:19,383 AND WE THINK THAT HAS TO DO WITH 3120 02:34:19,383 --> 02:34:21,919 DEGREE OF PATHOGENICITY, THEY 3121 02:34:21,919 --> 02:34:24,222 MADE MISTAKES, IN AMERICA, TO 3122 02:34:24,222 --> 02:34:26,724 HAVE ENOUGH PROBABILITY TO 3123 02:34:26,724 --> 02:34:28,793 INFECT ANOTHER HOST. 3124 02:34:28,793 --> 02:34:34,499 >> SO IS IT HUMAN HOST OR ARE 3125 02:34:34,499 --> 02:34:35,833 THESE IN MONKEYS, NEW WORLD 3126 02:34:35,833 --> 02:34:36,367 MONKEYS? 3127 02:34:36,367 --> 02:34:39,637 >> OH, IN THE NEW WORLD IT'S 3128 02:34:39,637 --> 02:34:40,104 MAINLY HORSE. 3129 02:34:40,104 --> 02:34:42,740 HORSES, THIS IS A BIG PROBLEM 3130 02:34:42,740 --> 02:34:45,877 FOR PEOPLE THAT LIKE RACES. 3131 02:34:45,877 --> 02:34:49,514 BUT THEY CAN INFECT MONKEYS. 3132 02:34:49,514 --> 02:34:54,118 THEY CAN INFECT EVEN SEA LIONS. 3133 02:34:54,118 --> 02:35:02,426 TROPISM IS REALLY WIDE. 3134 02:35:02,426 --> 02:35:03,327 >> THANK YOU. 3135 02:35:03,327 --> 02:35:07,265 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 3136 02:35:07,265 --> 02:35:08,266 THANK YOU, ALAN. 3137 02:35:08,266 --> 02:35:10,768 >> THANK YOU TO ALL THE SPEAKERS 3138 02:35:10,768 --> 02:35:12,737 FOR THE MORNING SESSION, REALLY 3139 02:35:12,737 --> 02:35:13,271 FANTASTIC. 3140 02:35:13,271 --> 02:35:14,939 WE'RE ON BREAK UNTIL 2:15. 3141 02:35:14,939 --> 02:35:16,574 THERE'S A CAFETERIA TO YOUR LEFT 3142 02:35:16,574 --> 02:35:18,242 AS YOU LEAVE THE MAIN DOORS 3143 02:35:18,242 --> 02:35:18,442 HERE. 3144 02:35:18,442 --> 02:35:21,872 WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT 2:15 3145 02:35:21,872 --> 02:35:24,541 THE NEXT SPEAKER IS A GOOD 3146 02:35:24,541 --> 02:35:27,011 FRIEND, AN OLD FRIEND, AND ONE 3147 02:35:27,011 --> 02:35:30,614 OF THE FEW COLLEAGUES WHO 3148 02:35:30,614 --> 02:35:34,718 PERSISTS IN STUDYING MURINE 3149 02:35:34,718 --> 02:35:37,321 LEUKEMIA VIRUS DESPITE THE 3150 02:35:37,321 --> 02:35:38,355 DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING FUNDING 3151 02:35:38,355 --> 02:35:39,690 FOR A VIRUS THAT DOESN'T INFECT 3152 02:35:39,690 --> 02:35:42,659 HUMANS. 3153 02:35:42,659 --> 02:35:50,200 MONICA HAS MADE MANY SEMINAL 3154 02:35:50,200 --> 02:35:52,136 CONTRIBUTIONS TO MURINE LEUKEMIA 3155 02:35:52,136 --> 02:35:53,704 VIRUS BIOLOGY. I ALWAYS 3156 02:35:53,704 --> 02:35:56,073 PARTICULARLY GO BACK TO HER WORK 3157 02:35:56,073 --> 02:36:02,146 ON THE FACT THAT, UNLIKE THE 3158 02:36:02,146 --> 02:36:04,982 PARADIGM HIV, MURINE LEUKEMIA 3159 02:36:04,982 --> 02:36:11,288 VIRUS DO NOT ENTER THE NUCLEUS. 3160 02:36:11,288 --> 02:36:12,423 THEY HOOK UP BY A COMPLETELY 3161 02:36:12,423 --> 02:36:14,858 DIFFERENT KIND OF MECHANISM. I 3162 02:36:14,858 --> 02:36:17,961 FEEL THAT A LOT OF MY WORK 3163 02:36:17,961 --> 02:36:21,532 RELATES TO THAT BASIC FACT ABOUT 3164 02:36:21,532 --> 02:36:27,704 MLV, WHICH SHE ELUCIDATED. 3165 02:36:27,704 --> 02:36:29,239 ANYWAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE'S 3166 02:36:29,239 --> 02:36:35,712 GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY. HER 3167 02:36:35,712 --> 02:36:43,554 TITLE IS MYSTERIOUS AND ELUSIVE, 3168 02:36:43,554 --> 02:36:46,023 FROM MLV TO EX MACHINA. WE'LL 3169 02:36:46,023 --> 02:36:46,924 FIND OUT WHAT THAT MACHINES. 3170 02:36:46,924 --> 02:36:57,367 WELCOME, MONICA. >> SO I 3171 02:37:02,706 --> 02:37:04,708 DECIDED NOT TO TALK ABOUT MY 3172 02:37:04,708 --> 02:37:07,010 RESEARCH DIRECTLY AND TALK MORE 3173 02:37:07,010 --> 02:37:08,345 ABOUT MY COMMUNICATIONS WITH 3174 02:37:08,345 --> 02:37:10,347 ALAN THROUGH E-MAILS AND THROUGH 3175 02:37:10,347 --> 02:37:11,215 STUDYING MLV. 3176 02:37:11,215 --> 02:37:13,817 I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE 3177 02:37:13,817 --> 02:37:15,652 LAST COLLECTION OF PEOPLE WHO 3178 02:37:15,652 --> 02:37:17,020 HAVE ACTUALLY WORKED ON THE 3179 02:37:17,020 --> 02:37:18,822 VIRUS AND STILL MIGHT REMEMBER 3180 02:37:18,822 --> 02:37:23,727 THE RESTRICTION MAP. 3181 02:37:23,727 --> 02:37:27,798 SO ADD AN AS RESEARCHER, MENTOR, 3182 02:37:27,798 --> 02:37:29,299 FRIEND, AND MOVIE CRITIC 3183 02:37:29,299 --> 02:37:31,268 BECAUSE, AS YOU'LL SEE, A LOT OF 3184 02:37:31,268 --> 02:37:32,369 THE E-MAILS WERE ABOUT WHAT 3185 02:37:32,369 --> 02:37:34,738 MOVIES WE'RE WATCHING. 3186 02:37:34,738 --> 02:37:37,040 EVERYONE HAS SEEN THIS TYPE OF 3187 02:37:37,040 --> 02:37:37,975 PICTURE BEFORE. 3188 02:37:37,975 --> 02:37:40,777 THIS IS A HYBRID BECAUSE I KNOW, 3189 02:37:40,777 --> 02:37:41,912 JONATHAN, THAT WAS A GREAT 3190 02:37:41,912 --> 02:37:43,881 PICTURE, BUT I KNOW YOU NEVER 3191 02:37:43,881 --> 02:37:45,983 SAT IN THE FRONT ROW, SO I 3192 02:37:45,983 --> 02:37:54,958 PLACED YOU IN YOUR CORRECT SPOT. 3193 02:37:54,958 --> 02:37:56,527 IN THE BACK RIGHT SECTION 3194 02:37:56,527 --> 02:37:56,760 CORNER. 3195 02:37:56,760 --> 02:38:00,230 WE MISS YOU THERE. 3196 02:38:00,230 --> 02:38:01,832 AND STEVE ALSO WAS PLACED IN THE 3197 02:38:01,832 --> 02:38:03,200 FRONT, BUT USUALLY IF YOU WERE 3198 02:38:03,200 --> 02:38:05,435 LOOKING FOR STEVE, HE'S SORT OF 3199 02:38:05,435 --> 02:38:06,403 IN THE BACK RIGHT HAND CORNER 3200 02:38:06,403 --> 02:38:11,308 WHEN HE ACTUALLY SHOWS UP. 3201 02:38:11,308 --> 02:38:12,509 AND OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE FRONT 3202 02:38:12,509 --> 02:38:15,245 ROW PEOPLE, WHO STILL ARE IN THE 3203 02:38:15,245 --> 02:38:17,948 FRONT ROW, BUT IF YOU REALLY 3204 02:38:17,948 --> 02:38:19,850 WERE LOOKING FOR ALAN, HE REALLY 3205 02:38:19,850 --> 02:38:21,485 WAS IN THAT RIGHT HAND SECTION, 3206 02:38:21,485 --> 02:38:25,255 A FEW ROWS IN, A FEW ROWS BACK, 3207 02:38:25,255 --> 02:38:26,957 AND THAT'S WHERE I'VE BEEN 3208 02:38:26,957 --> 02:38:29,927 SITTING RECENTLY. 3209 02:38:29,927 --> 02:38:31,228 I APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE ELSE WHO 3210 02:38:31,228 --> 02:38:33,063 ACTUALLY SITS IN OTHER PLACES, 3211 02:38:33,063 --> 02:38:34,398 BUT IF YOU'RE ON THE LEFT-HAND 3212 02:38:34,398 --> 02:38:35,799 SIDE OF THE AUDITORIUM, I 3213 02:38:35,799 --> 02:38:36,400 USUALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU 3214 02:38:36,400 --> 02:38:40,971 SIT. 3215 02:38:40,971 --> 02:38:42,105 (LAUGHTER) 3216 02:38:42,105 --> 02:38:44,875 IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ALAN IN 3217 02:38:44,875 --> 02:38:46,243 THE AUDITORIUM, THAT'S WHERE YOU 3218 02:38:46,243 --> 02:38:48,011 WOULD FIND HIM. 3219 02:38:48,011 --> 02:38:49,680 EVERY YEAR I REALLY WOULD -- 3220 02:38:49,680 --> 02:38:50,581 THIS IS TRUE. 3221 02:38:50,581 --> 02:38:53,884 EVERY YEAR I WOULD GO TO COLD 3222 02:38:53,884 --> 02:38:55,919 SPRING HARBOR AND SAY TO MYSELF, 3223 02:38:55,919 --> 02:38:59,756 I WONDER WHAT ALAN REIN IS 3224 02:38:59,756 --> 02:39:00,457 WORKING ON. 3225 02:39:00,457 --> 02:39:02,025 IT WAS ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW AND 3226 02:39:02,025 --> 02:39:02,559 DIFFERENT. 3227 02:39:02,559 --> 02:39:04,194 IT WASN'T LIKE YOU'RE WORKING ON 3228 02:39:04,194 --> 02:39:05,162 RT ALL THE TIME. 3229 02:39:05,162 --> 02:39:06,563 HE ALWAYS CAME UP WITH SOMETHING 3230 02:39:06,563 --> 02:39:06,830 DIFFERENT. 3231 02:39:06,830 --> 02:39:08,999 AND THE KEY POINT FOR ME IS LIKE 3232 02:39:08,999 --> 02:39:10,367 SOMETIMES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU 3233 02:39:10,367 --> 02:39:12,436 WORK ON MLV AND YOU SEE A PAPER 3234 02:39:12,436 --> 02:39:16,106 LIKE THIS AND IS SAYS, OH, 3235 02:39:16,106 --> 02:39:21,111 GLYCOGAG EFFECTS OF VIRUS ENTRY, 3236 02:39:21,111 --> 02:39:23,146 DEPENDING WHAT SET OF 3237 02:39:23,146 --> 02:39:24,348 GLYCOPROTEINS YOU WORK ON, IT 3238 02:39:24,348 --> 02:39:27,050 SENT ME INTO A PANIC BECAUSE I 3239 02:39:27,050 --> 02:39:30,587 WORK ON GLYCOPROTEIN PARTICLES, 3240 02:39:30,587 --> 02:39:32,823 AND I WORK ON TARGETING 3241 02:39:32,823 --> 02:39:35,259 RETROVIRAL PAR I CAN LS BY USING 3242 02:39:35,259 --> 02:39:36,760 DIFFERENT ENVELOPES. 3243 02:39:36,760 --> 02:39:39,129 AND WE USE DIFFERENT PLASMA 3244 02:39:39,129 --> 02:39:41,598 SYSTEMS, AND I'M SITTING THERE 3245 02:39:41,598 --> 02:39:44,334 SAYING, OH, MY GOD, WHICH ONE OF 3246 02:39:44,334 --> 02:39:50,274 OUR PLASMA SYSTEMS EXPRESS 3247 02:39:50,274 --> 02:39:51,341 GLYCOGAG? 3248 02:39:51,341 --> 02:39:54,144 SO HERE ARE TWO FREQUENTLY USED 3249 02:39:54,144 --> 02:39:55,545 EXPRESSION SYSTEMS. 3250 02:39:55,545 --> 02:39:59,349 ONE WAS FROM THE COSSET LAB, AND 3251 02:39:59,349 --> 02:40:01,985 IT'S CALLED PCEB. 3252 02:40:01,985 --> 02:40:07,491 THE OTHER ONE IS A PCGP FROM THE 3253 02:40:07,491 --> 02:40:09,159 KINGSMEN LAB, AND WHICH ONE OF 3254 02:40:09,159 --> 02:40:11,128 THESE OR NEITHER OF THESE OR ALL 3255 02:40:11,128 --> 02:40:14,798 OF THEM EXPRESS GLYCOGAG? 3256 02:40:14,798 --> 02:40:15,032 ANYBODY? 3257 02:40:15,032 --> 02:40:16,199 YOU HAVE A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF 3258 02:40:16,199 --> 02:40:19,069 GETTING THE RIGHT ANSWER. 3259 02:40:19,069 --> 02:40:21,672 THE BOTTOM ONE, OKAY, YES. 3260 02:40:21,672 --> 02:40:31,248 GIVE HER THE AWARD. 3261 02:40:31,248 --> 02:40:33,750 BECAUSE IT'S HOW THEY WERE MAD. 3262 02:40:33,750 --> 02:40:40,390 SO PCEB WAS MADE FROM MAKING A 3263 02:40:40,390 --> 02:40:41,758 DELETION. 3264 02:40:41,758 --> 02:40:47,230 IT'S THE MSC SITE TO PST SITE, 3265 02:40:47,230 --> 02:40:50,033 AND IF YOU'RE A REAL EXPERT, 3266 02:40:50,033 --> 02:40:52,669 YOU'LL SAY THERE ARE TWO PSII 3267 02:40:52,669 --> 02:40:55,038 SITES, WHICH ONE? 3268 02:40:55,038 --> 02:40:57,140 WHEREAS CGP WAS MADE BY MOVING A 3269 02:40:57,140 --> 02:40:59,609 FRAGMENT TO EXPRESS IT AT THE 3270 02:40:59,609 --> 02:41:00,911 CMV PROMOTER. 3271 02:41:00,911 --> 02:41:02,546 AND JUST FORTUITOUSLY, THE SITE 3272 02:41:02,546 --> 02:41:04,715 THAT THEY PICKED WAS JUST A 3273 02:41:04,715 --> 02:41:06,383 STREAM OF WHERE GLYCOGAG STARTS. 3274 02:41:06,383 --> 02:41:08,652 JUST TO BRING YOU BACK TO WHAT 3275 02:41:08,652 --> 02:41:11,188 RESEARCH WAS LIKE IN THE EARLY 3276 02:41:11,188 --> 02:41:21,698 '80s, WHEN I JOINED STEVE'S 3277 02:41:24,301 --> 02:41:25,302 LAB, THIS WAS THE SEQUENCE THAT 3278 02:41:25,302 --> 02:41:26,303 HE GAVE US. 3279 02:41:26,303 --> 02:41:29,139 IF YOU NOTE THAT GAG, THERE'S A 3280 02:41:29,139 --> 02:41:31,041 FAINT ERROR, SO IF YOU REALLY 3281 02:41:31,041 --> 02:41:32,209 WANTED TO KNOW THE SEQUENCE OF 3282 02:41:32,209 --> 02:41:34,044 GAG, YOU HAD TO COUNT THAT IN 3283 02:41:34,044 --> 02:41:35,278 THREES, AND YOU CAN SEE VERY 3284 02:41:35,278 --> 02:41:37,948 HIDDEN THERE PENCILED IN, IT 3285 02:41:37,948 --> 02:41:40,751 SAYS WHERE GLYCOGAG STARTS, AND 3286 02:41:40,751 --> 02:41:45,789 YOU COULD SEE HERE THAT BAL 1, 3287 02:41:45,789 --> 02:41:50,627 WHICH IS NOW MSC 1 TO PST, IF 3288 02:41:50,627 --> 02:41:52,362 YOU DID THAT INCISION, WRITTEN 3289 02:41:52,362 --> 02:41:54,064 IN MY HANDWRITING ON THE LEFT, 3290 02:41:54,064 --> 02:41:56,066 YOU CUT OUT GLYCOGAG. 3291 02:41:56,066 --> 02:42:01,505 BUT IF YOU STARTED THAT XMA 1 3292 02:42:01,505 --> 02:42:03,840 SITE, YOU WOULD JUST LIKELY HAVE 3293 02:42:03,840 --> 02:42:05,542 GLYCOGAG INCLUDED IN IT. 3294 02:42:05,542 --> 02:42:06,443 SO IF YOU WERE INTERESTED IN 3295 02:42:06,443 --> 02:42:07,811 WORKING WITH A VECTOR, YOU 3296 02:42:07,811 --> 02:42:10,414 SHOULD BE WORKING IN ONE THAT 3297 02:42:10,414 --> 02:42:12,983 STUDIES PARTICLE ENTRY, IT'S THE 3298 02:42:12,983 --> 02:42:13,950 BOTTOM ONE TO USE. 3299 02:42:13,950 --> 02:42:15,018 OF COURSE I DIDN'T REMEMBER 3300 02:42:15,018 --> 02:42:17,354 THAT, AND WE'RE STILL WORKING 3301 02:42:17,354 --> 02:42:24,294 WITH PCEB, AND I WENT INTO A 3302 02:42:24,294 --> 02:42:26,763 PANIC AGAIN. 3303 02:42:26,763 --> 02:42:28,131 ALAN FREQUENTLY GETS ASKED TO 3304 02:42:28,131 --> 02:42:29,499 WRITE STORIES ABOUT SCIENTISTS 3305 02:42:29,499 --> 02:42:33,170 WHO PASSED AWAY, AND HE DID 3306 02:42:33,170 --> 02:42:38,275 WRITE THIS ONE ABOUT STEPHEN 3307 02:42:38,275 --> 02:42:41,278 ROROSZLAN, AND HE SENT THIS TO 3308 02:42:41,278 --> 02:42:44,714 PEOPLE WHO HAD STORIES ABOUT 3309 02:42:44,714 --> 02:42:47,617 STEPHEN OROSZLAN, AND I WROTE 3310 02:42:47,617 --> 02:42:50,387 THIS STORY ABOUT, WHEN WE FIRST 3311 02:42:50,387 --> 02:42:53,356 STARTED IN STEPHEN GOFF'S LAB, 3312 02:42:53,356 --> 02:42:54,791 WE WEREN'T VERY ADVANCED ABOUT 3313 02:42:54,791 --> 02:42:55,892 WHERE PROTEINS STARTED AND 3314 02:42:55,892 --> 02:42:57,694 ENDED. 3315 02:42:57,694 --> 02:43:00,030 SO WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE 3316 02:43:00,030 --> 02:43:02,566 PROTEINED STARTED AND ENDED, SO 3317 02:43:02,566 --> 02:43:06,336 WE PICKED A SEQUENCE AND PUT IT 3318 02:43:06,336 --> 02:43:08,338 ON THE END AND TRIED TO PICK THE 3319 02:43:08,338 --> 02:43:10,707 MOST STABLE PROTEIN, FIGURING 3320 02:43:10,707 --> 02:43:12,275 THE MOST STABLE SOLUBLE PROTEIN 3321 02:43:12,275 --> 02:43:13,477 IS PROBABLY THE RIGHT THING, AND 3322 02:43:13,477 --> 02:43:15,345 THAT'S WHAT WE WORKED WITH. 3323 02:43:15,345 --> 02:43:17,013 THEN I WENT TO COLD SPRING 3324 02:43:17,013 --> 02:43:19,382 HARBOR FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND 3325 02:43:19,382 --> 02:43:22,586 STEPHEN OROSZLAN WAS THERE, 3326 02:43:22,586 --> 02:43:27,190 DESCRIBING, I THINK, THE 3327 02:43:27,190 --> 02:43:29,593 TERMINII OF RT, AND I 3328 02:43:29,593 --> 02:43:31,428 IMMEDIATELY HAD TO FIND HIM. 3329 02:43:31,428 --> 02:43:32,929 I FOUND HIM IN THE HALLWAY IN 3330 02:43:32,929 --> 02:43:34,231 FRONT OF THE BAR, WE ALL KNOW 3331 02:43:34,231 --> 02:43:35,999 WHERE THAT IS, AND I CORNERED 3332 02:43:35,999 --> 02:43:37,701 HIM TO FIND OUT WHERE THE REAL 3333 02:43:37,701 --> 02:43:40,437 SEQUENCE WAS, AND HE TOLD ME 3334 02:43:40,437 --> 02:43:41,605 THERE WOULD BE A MANUSCRIPT 3335 02:43:41,605 --> 02:43:43,573 COMING OUT VERY SOON. 3336 02:43:43,573 --> 02:43:45,342 IT WAS ACTUALLY RELEASED RIGHT 3337 02:43:45,342 --> 02:43:47,777 AFTER THE MEETING, SO HE 3338 02:43:47,777 --> 02:43:48,879 ACTUALLY DID KNOW THE ANSWER, 3339 02:43:48,879 --> 02:43:51,114 BUT HI TO WAIT FOR THE PAPER TO 3340 02:43:51,114 --> 02:43:52,249 COME OUT. 3341 02:43:52,249 --> 02:43:54,084 IT TURNS OUT WE WERE PRETTY 3342 02:43:54,084 --> 02:44:00,190 CLOSE TO THE REAL AUTHENTIC 3343 02:44:00,190 --> 02:44:00,423 TERMINI. 3344 02:44:00,423 --> 02:44:03,560 I WROTE THAT STORY TO ALAN, AND 3345 02:44:03,560 --> 02:44:05,462 I COULD HEAR HIS VOICE SAYING, 3346 02:44:05,462 --> 02:44:06,763 MONICA, THANKS. 3347 02:44:06,763 --> 02:44:08,265 THAT'S A VERY NICE LITTLE 3348 02:44:08,265 --> 02:44:08,565 ANECDOTE. 3349 02:44:08,565 --> 02:44:10,267 THE REST OF IT BASICALLY SAYING 3350 02:44:10,267 --> 02:44:12,903 IT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE 3351 02:44:12,903 --> 02:44:15,872 INCORPORATED INTO IT. 3352 02:44:15,872 --> 02:44:16,239 (LAUGHTER) 3353 02:44:16,239 --> 02:44:18,008 BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS ALSO A 3354 02:44:18,008 --> 02:44:19,543 CLASSIC ALAN. 3355 02:44:19,543 --> 02:44:22,712 THANKS AGAIN AND BEST REGARDS. 3356 02:44:22,712 --> 02:44:25,282 SO THIS WAS THE SUMMER OF THE 3357 02:44:25,282 --> 02:44:28,685 THING THAT ALAN WROTE ABOUT 3358 02:44:28,685 --> 02:44:31,388 STEVE OROSZLAN, AND THREE 3359 02:44:31,388 --> 02:44:33,490 QUARTERS OF IT IS ABOUT HIV, BUT 3360 02:44:33,490 --> 02:44:35,325 THE VERY LAST PARAGRAPH IS ABOUT 3361 02:44:35,325 --> 02:44:38,261 DESCRIBING WHEN STEVE OROSZLAN 3362 02:44:38,261 --> 02:44:41,665 FOUND A SEQUENCE OF P12, AND IT 3363 02:44:41,665 --> 02:44:46,570 HAD A PPPY SFENS IN IT, AND 3364 02:44:46,570 --> 02:44:53,410 STEVE SAID HE ELICITED A LOUD 3365 02:44:53,410 --> 02:44:56,012 SIGH OF AMAZEMENT AND INCLUDING 3366 02:44:56,012 --> 02:45:00,116 AN EXPLETIVE, TURNS OUT THAT'S 3367 02:45:00,116 --> 02:45:04,387 THE LAST DOMAIN AND P12. 3368 02:45:04,387 --> 02:45:07,157 SO I WAS AT LEAST HAPPY THAT P12 3369 02:45:07,157 --> 02:45:07,791 WAS INCORPORATED INTO THAT 3370 02:45:07,791 --> 02:45:09,926 STORY. 3371 02:45:09,926 --> 02:45:13,129 THEN I PUBLISHED OUR WORK ON 3372 02:45:13,129 --> 02:45:15,565 P12, IN WHICH WE TOOK OUT THE 3373 02:45:15,565 --> 02:45:16,900 REGION WE THOUGHT WAS THE 3374 02:45:16,900 --> 02:45:18,802 TETHERING DOMAIN AND INSERTED IN 3375 02:45:18,802 --> 02:45:20,337 TETHERING DOMAINS FROM LOTS OF 3376 02:45:20,337 --> 02:45:21,404 DIFFERENT VIRUSES AND FOUND OUT 3377 02:45:21,404 --> 02:45:23,139 THAT THEY SUBSTITUTED. 3378 02:45:23,139 --> 02:45:26,209 BUT MORE TOUCHING WAS THAT ALAN 3379 02:45:26,209 --> 02:45:28,078 WROTE THE COMMENTARY ABOUT THIS 3380 02:45:28,078 --> 02:45:30,413 STUDY, AND IT REALLY WAS 3381 02:45:30,413 --> 02:45:33,049 SIGNIFICANT TO ME THAT ALAN 3382 02:45:33,049 --> 02:45:35,085 WROTE THIS COMMENTARY ABOUT OUR 3383 02:45:35,085 --> 02:45:40,924 WORK, SO THANK YOU. 3384 02:45:40,924 --> 02:45:43,460 I HAVE SOME MORE POLITE E-MAILS 3385 02:45:43,460 --> 02:45:44,661 FROM ALAN. 3386 02:45:44,661 --> 02:45:48,598 USUALLY WHEN HE'S LOOKING FOR A 3387 02:45:48,598 --> 02:45:49,933 REAGENT, AND YOU CAN TRY TO 3388 02:45:49,933 --> 02:45:52,135 GUESS WHAT HE'S WORKING ON 3389 02:45:52,135 --> 02:45:53,870 BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA WHY I WAS 3390 02:45:53,870 --> 02:45:55,138 ASKING FOR THESE REAGENTS. 3391 02:45:55,138 --> 02:45:57,741 THIS IS ONE HE WROTE TO LORRAINE 3392 02:45:57,741 --> 02:46:00,543 AND MYSELF, LOOKING FOR 3393 02:46:00,543 --> 02:46:08,885 REPLICATION COMPETENT MLV WITH A 3394 02:46:08,885 --> 02:46:09,986 XENOTROPIC EMV. 3395 02:46:09,986 --> 02:46:12,188 AND I DON'T HAVE IT. 3396 02:46:12,188 --> 02:46:14,891 HERE'S A CLASSIC ALAN ANSWER, 3397 02:46:14,891 --> 02:46:16,259 OKAY, BEST REGARDS ANYWAY. 3398 02:46:16,259 --> 02:46:17,527 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE FROM OCTOBER 3399 02:46:17,527 --> 02:46:20,397 9th, 2020. 3400 02:46:20,397 --> 02:46:22,932 LOOKING, ASKING ABOUT P50. 3401 02:46:22,932 --> 02:46:29,472 FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WORKED IN 3402 02:46:29,472 --> 02:46:31,508 MLV, THERE'S THIS P50. 3403 02:46:31,508 --> 02:46:35,679 IT HAS MA, P12, CA, AND SPLICES 3404 02:46:35,679 --> 02:46:39,149 INTO THE C TERMINUS OF IN. 3405 02:46:39,149 --> 02:46:44,421 SO HE ASKED ME IF I HAD ANY 3406 02:46:44,421 --> 02:46:46,656 ANTISERA TO TRY, WHICH IS 3407 02:46:46,656 --> 02:46:47,891 ANTI-MA OR ANTI-IN. 3408 02:46:47,891 --> 02:46:50,794 IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATE, IT'S 3409 02:46:50,794 --> 02:46:52,796 OCTOBER 9th, 2020, WHEN BOTH OF 3410 02:46:52,796 --> 02:46:54,731 US WERE AT HOME BEING LOCKED OUT 3411 02:46:54,731 --> 02:46:56,299 OF OUR LABS DURING COVID. 3412 02:46:56,299 --> 02:46:58,868 I SAID, ALAN, IT'S GOING TO TAKE 3413 02:46:58,868 --> 02:47:01,371 A LITTLE DIGGING IF I STORE IT 3414 02:47:01,371 --> 02:47:01,838 ANYWHERE. 3415 02:47:01,838 --> 02:47:03,740 I'VE BEEN WORKING AT HOME SINCE 3416 02:47:03,740 --> 02:47:04,808 MARCH. 3417 02:47:04,808 --> 02:47:05,809 I LITERALLY WAS GIVEN TWO HOURS 3418 02:47:05,809 --> 02:47:07,677 TO LEAVE THE LAB AND NEVER COME 3419 02:47:07,677 --> 02:47:09,813 BACK FOR A YEAR. 3420 02:47:09,813 --> 02:47:13,616 I ACTUALLY DIDN'T TAKE MY OWN 3421 02:47:13,616 --> 02:47:20,724 IPs WITH MLV SERA. 3422 02:47:20,724 --> 02:47:22,358 ANYWAY, THAT'S HOW WE TRIED TO 3423 02:47:22,358 --> 02:47:23,426 DO SCIENCE DURING COVID. 3424 02:47:23,426 --> 02:47:24,961 HE SAID, I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. 3425 02:47:24,961 --> 02:47:27,430 I'M HOME SEPARATED FROM MY 3426 02:47:27,430 --> 02:47:27,630 FILES. 3427 02:47:27,630 --> 02:47:29,299 I NEVER DID -- I APOLOGIZE. 3428 02:47:29,299 --> 02:47:31,067 I NEVER DID GO BACK TO LOOK FOR 3429 02:47:31,067 --> 02:47:33,703 THOSE, BUT I DO WANT TO HAVE A 3430 02:47:33,703 --> 02:47:34,671 COMMERCIAL HERE SAYING, IF 3431 02:47:34,671 --> 02:47:38,041 YOU'RE LOOKING FOR MLV 3432 02:47:38,041 --> 02:47:44,681 ANTIBODIES, CHRISTINE KOZACK HAS 3433 02:47:44,681 --> 02:47:47,050 FULL FROM THE ONES FROM THE 3434 02:47:47,050 --> 02:47:47,350 REPOSITORY. 3435 02:47:47,350 --> 02:47:48,852 IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THOSE, 3436 02:47:48,852 --> 02:47:51,387 THEY'RE GREAT ANTIBODIES. 3437 02:47:51,387 --> 02:48:00,263 THEY'RE PROBABLY NICE VIALS, AND 3438 02:48:00,263 --> 02:48:01,731 WE'D HATE TO HAVE THEM THROW 3439 02:48:01,731 --> 02:48:01,931 OUT. 3440 02:48:01,931 --> 02:48:03,900 IF PEOPLE KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH 3441 02:48:03,900 --> 02:48:06,669 THIS SERUM, WE'D CERTAINLY LIKE 3442 02:48:06,669 --> 02:48:08,671 THEM TO HAVE A HOME BEFORE 3443 02:48:08,671 --> 02:48:11,074 CHRISTINE RETIRES OR ANYONE 3444 02:48:11,074 --> 02:48:11,908 ELSE. 3445 02:48:11,908 --> 02:48:13,042 I DO HAVE AN APOLOGY. 3446 02:48:13,042 --> 02:48:15,612 I'M SURPRISED THAT ALAN ASKED ME 3447 02:48:15,612 --> 02:48:17,514 FOR REAGENTS BECAUSE ACTUALLY IN 3448 02:48:17,514 --> 02:48:20,150 2015 I HAD SENT HIM SOME SAMPLES 3449 02:48:20,150 --> 02:48:23,353 OF SOME P12 MUTANTS, TRYING TO 3450 02:48:23,353 --> 02:48:27,257 LOOK AT THE SHAPE OF THE CAPCID. 3451 02:48:27,257 --> 02:48:28,925 UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS WHAT I 3452 02:48:28,925 --> 02:48:30,126 GOT BACK WHERE THEY SAID VERY 3453 02:48:30,126 --> 02:48:32,328 LAST SIX IMAGES DISPLAYED, 3454 02:48:32,328 --> 02:48:35,832 POSSIBLE MICROPLASM OR YEAST 3455 02:48:35,832 --> 02:48:36,666 CONTAMINATION. 3456 02:48:36,666 --> 02:48:38,468 SO I AM HORRIFIED STILL TO THIS 3457 02:48:38,468 --> 02:48:40,637 DAY THAT I SENT SAMPLES THAT 3458 02:48:40,637 --> 02:48:42,438 MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS CLEAN AS 3459 02:48:42,438 --> 02:48:44,007 THEY EVER WERE. 3460 02:48:44,007 --> 02:48:45,642 LITERALLY, MY LAB HAS NEVER 3461 02:48:45,642 --> 02:48:50,880 TAKEN ANY CULTURE AT A PLASMA 3462 02:48:50,880 --> 02:48:52,182 SCENE SINCE THEN BECAUSE WE 3463 02:48:52,182 --> 02:48:53,650 DON'T EVER WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. 3464 02:48:53,650 --> 02:48:57,153 MY APOLOGIES IF WE CONTAMINATED 3465 02:48:57,153 --> 02:48:57,587 ANYTHING. 3466 02:48:57,587 --> 02:48:59,656 I'M STILL SHAKING FROM THAT. 3467 02:48:59,656 --> 02:49:01,658 HERE'S ANOTHER E-MAIL THAT WAS 3468 02:49:01,658 --> 02:49:06,329 JUST LAST YEAR. 3469 02:49:06,329 --> 02:49:07,997 WE WERE AT THE 40th ANNIVERSARY 3470 02:49:07,997 --> 02:49:14,771 OF HIV, AND I WAS SPEAKING WITH 3471 02:49:14,771 --> 02:49:24,514 AT ALLEGE ARE ALICE AND WES. 3472 02:49:24,514 --> 02:49:27,116 THE SOLUTION WAS LET'S ASK ALAN 3473 02:49:27,116 --> 02:49:27,450 REiNS. 3474 02:49:27,450 --> 02:49:29,919 THIS WAS AT 4:54 COFFEE BREAK. 3475 02:49:29,919 --> 02:49:31,654 I SENT HIM AN E-MAIL. 3476 02:49:31,654 --> 02:49:33,022 LITERALLY FOUR MINUTES LATER WE 3477 02:49:33,022 --> 02:49:33,990 GOT THE ANSWER. 3478 02:49:33,990 --> 02:49:35,258 THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS 3479 02:49:35,258 --> 02:49:36,793 YES, AND I'M HOPING TO PUBLISH 3480 02:49:36,793 --> 02:49:39,596 THE PAPER BEFORE I DIE OF OLD 3481 02:49:39,596 --> 02:49:42,599 AGE, GLAD SOMEONE IS INTERESTED. 3482 02:49:42,599 --> 02:49:45,802 SO I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT THIS 3483 02:49:45,802 --> 02:49:51,107 PAPER DID COME OUT IN MBIO IN 3484 02:49:51,107 --> 02:49:51,474 JULY. 3485 02:49:51,474 --> 02:50:01,951 SO, YES, THERE'S THE ANSWER. 3486 02:50:06,022 --> 02:50:07,323 >> HE'S WITH US. 3487 02:50:07,323 --> 02:50:07,757 >> RAISE YOUR HAND. 3488 02:50:07,757 --> 02:50:10,660 THANK YOU. 3489 02:50:10,660 --> 02:50:12,028 THIS IS A SLIGHT DEVIATION FROM 3490 02:50:12,028 --> 02:50:12,929 THE TOPIC. 3491 02:50:12,929 --> 02:50:16,666 I WENT TO MY SCHOOL'S TRYING TO 3492 02:50:16,666 --> 02:50:18,234 DISCUSS OUR NEW ENTERING CLASS 3493 02:50:18,234 --> 02:50:20,303 OF MEDICAL STUDENTS, AND THIS 3494 02:50:20,303 --> 02:50:23,306 WAS ONE OF THEIR SLIDES ABOUT A 3495 02:50:23,306 --> 02:50:27,610 SNAPSHOT OF THE PEOPLE GOING OR 3496 02:50:27,610 --> 02:50:30,246 ENTERING ROBERT W. JOHNSON 3497 02:50:30,246 --> 02:50:32,148 MEDICAL SCHOOL CLASS, AND THE 3498 02:50:32,148 --> 02:50:33,349 QUESTION WAS HOW MANY PEOPLE 3499 02:50:33,349 --> 02:50:35,184 SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AT 3500 02:50:35,184 --> 02:50:35,652 HOME. 3501 02:50:35,652 --> 02:50:36,853 THEY SAID 40 PERCENT OF THE 3502 02:50:36,853 --> 02:50:38,021 CLASS SPEAKS ONE OR TWO 3503 02:50:38,021 --> 02:50:39,322 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AT A NATIVE 3504 02:50:39,322 --> 02:50:40,957 OR ADVANCED LEVEL AT HOME. 3505 02:50:40,957 --> 02:50:43,226 IT'S REALLY AN IMPRESSIVE STORY, 3506 02:50:43,226 --> 02:50:45,828 AND IT BASICALLY SHOWS YOU WHO'S 3507 02:50:45,828 --> 02:50:47,764 GOING IN TO BE CLINICIANS THESE 3508 02:50:47,764 --> 02:50:47,964 DAYS. 3509 02:50:47,964 --> 02:50:51,200 SO WHEN I SAW THIS, I'M SURE 3510 02:50:51,200 --> 02:50:52,769 EVERYONE ELSE HERE IS THINKING, 3511 02:50:52,769 --> 02:50:54,137 OH, WHAT LANGUAGES WERE SPOKEN 3512 02:50:54,137 --> 02:50:55,672 IN MY HOUSE? 3513 02:50:55,672 --> 02:50:58,207 BOTH OF MY PARENTS WERE BORN IN 3514 02:50:58,207 --> 02:50:59,676 BROOKLYN, WHICH SOME PEOPLE 3515 02:50:59,676 --> 02:51:01,644 MIGHT THINK IS A FOREIGN 3516 02:51:01,644 --> 02:51:05,682 LANGU 3517 02:51:05,682 --> 02:51:06,816 LANGUAGE, AND IF YOU REALLY WANT 3518 02:51:06,816 --> 02:51:08,151 TO TALK ABOUT IT, WE CAN HAVE IT 3519 02:51:08,151 --> 02:51:14,257 OVER COFFEE. 3520 02:51:14,257 --> 02:51:15,992 DESPITE BEING BORN IN BROOKLYN, 3521 02:51:15,992 --> 02:51:19,829 MY MOM WAS A YIDDISH-IST, AND 3522 02:51:19,829 --> 02:51:22,231 SHE TRIED HER HARDEST TO KEEP 3523 02:51:22,231 --> 02:51:24,467 THIS LANGUAGE FROM DYING, SO SHE 3524 02:51:24,467 --> 02:51:27,103 SENT ME TO YIDDISH SCHOOL FOR 12 3525 02:51:27,103 --> 02:51:28,938 YEARS, MAYBE 15 YEARS. 3526 02:51:28,938 --> 02:51:31,641 WHEN ALAN HEARD THIS, HE STARTED 3527 02:51:31,641 --> 02:51:34,510 SENDING ME NEWSLETTERS FROM KLEZ 3528 02:51:34,510 --> 02:51:36,946 CALIFORNIA, AND I THOUGHT I KNEW 3529 02:51:36,946 --> 02:51:38,314 EVERY YIDDISH ORGANIZATION EVER 3530 02:51:38,314 --> 02:51:40,216 BECAUSE OF MY MOM, BUT I 3531 02:51:40,216 --> 02:51:43,052 ACTUALLY HAD NEVER HEARD OF KLEZ 3532 02:51:43,052 --> 02:51:43,353 CALIFORNIA. 3533 02:51:43,353 --> 02:51:44,887 HE SENT ME ONE, AND I WAS 3534 02:51:44,887 --> 02:51:45,722 LOOKING THROUGH IT. 3535 02:51:45,722 --> 02:51:48,191 SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD OF 3536 02:51:48,191 --> 02:51:51,094 PETE SEGER. 3537 02:51:51,094 --> 02:51:53,062 THE OTHER PERSON IN THE PICTURE 3538 02:51:53,062 --> 02:51:56,566 IS RUTH RUBIN, WHO IS A VERY 3539 02:51:56,566 --> 02:51:59,135 FAMOUS FOLKLORIST IN YIDDISH 3540 02:51:59,135 --> 02:52:00,436 MUSIC, AND MY MOM KNEW HER AND 3541 02:52:00,436 --> 02:52:01,571 WORKED WITH HER DIRECTLY. 3542 02:52:01,571 --> 02:52:03,339 SHE REALLY IS ONE OF THESE 3543 02:52:03,339 --> 02:52:04,140 FAMOUS PEOPLE. 3544 02:52:04,140 --> 02:52:05,308 WE HAD HER BOOKS AT HOME. 3545 02:52:05,308 --> 02:52:07,777 WHEN I SAW THIS, I WENT AND I 3546 02:52:07,777 --> 02:52:10,480 WATCHED THIS LINK, AND THEY WERE 3547 02:52:10,480 --> 02:52:14,917 SINGING THIS SONG. 3548 02:52:14,917 --> 02:52:16,953 JUST LIKE LOOKING BACK, WHY WAS 3549 02:52:16,953 --> 02:52:17,987 I DOING THIS? 3550 02:52:17,987 --> 02:52:19,455 WHAT WAS MY FRAMEWORK THAT I 3551 02:52:19,455 --> 02:52:21,224 STARTED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT 3552 02:52:21,224 --> 02:52:23,493 YIDDISH SONGS FROM THE EARLY 3553 02:52:23,493 --> 02:52:30,633 1900s? 3554 02:52:30,633 --> 02:52:31,734 I LOOKED AT THE DATE OF THE 3555 02:52:31,734 --> 02:52:34,637 E-MAIL I SENT TO ALAN, NOVEMBER 3556 02:52:34,637 --> 02:52:43,613 7, 2022. 3557 02:52:43,613 --> 02:52:47,784 IT SAYS, WITH THE ELECTIONS 3558 02:52:47,784 --> 02:52:51,587 TOMORROW, IT'S HARD TO WATCH TV, 3559 02:52:51,587 --> 02:52:54,323 AND I'VE BEEN RESORTING TO EASY 3560 02:52:54,323 --> 02:52:57,193 WATCHING LIKE BRITISH BAKING 3561 02:52:57,193 --> 02:52:58,327 SHOW TWO. 3562 02:52:58,327 --> 02:53:01,631 >> BAKEOFF, ISN'T IT? 3563 02:53:01,631 --> 02:53:04,567 >> IN ENGLAND, IT'S CALLED THE 3564 02:53:04,567 --> 02:53:06,002 BAKEOFF, BUT IT'S THE BRITISH 3565 02:53:06,002 --> 02:53:06,903 BAKE SHOW TWO. 3566 02:53:06,903 --> 02:53:08,838 AND IT JUST REALLY HIT ME 3567 02:53:08,838 --> 02:53:10,540 BECAUSE HERE I AM TWO YEARS 3568 02:53:10,540 --> 02:53:12,375 LATER, I CAN'T WATCH THE NEWS. 3569 02:53:12,375 --> 02:53:14,444 I'VE BEEN WATCHING THE BRITISH 3570 02:53:14,444 --> 02:53:17,447 BAKE SHOW TWO, AND THERE'S A NEW 3571 02:53:17,447 --> 02:53:20,917 EPISODE TONIGHT. 3572 02:53:20,917 --> 02:53:24,353 SO IF YOU ALSO CAN'T WATCH THE 3573 02:53:24,353 --> 02:53:27,557 NEWS, I'D HIGHLY RECOMMEND 3574 02:53:27,557 --> 02:53:29,759 WATCHING THE SHOW. 3575 02:53:29,759 --> 02:53:31,928 UNLIKE AMERICAN TV, WHERE PEOPLE 3576 02:53:31,928 --> 02:53:33,362 COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER AND BACK 3577 02:53:33,362 --> 02:53:34,163 STAB EACH OTHER. 3578 02:53:34,163 --> 02:53:35,932 IN THIS SHOW, THEY ACTUALLY DO 3579 02:53:35,932 --> 02:53:37,934 COMPETE EACH OTHER, BUT THEY 3580 02:53:37,934 --> 02:53:39,001 ACTUALLY HELP EACH OTHER AND 3581 02:53:39,001 --> 02:53:40,069 THEY LIKE EACH OTHER. 3582 02:53:40,069 --> 02:53:42,105 I REALLY THINK THAT'S WHERE WE 3583 02:53:42,105 --> 02:53:44,474 SHOULD BE GOING. 3584 02:53:44,474 --> 02:53:46,642 I ALSO HEAR PUT A MOVIE 3585 02:53:46,642 --> 02:53:48,411 RECOMMENDATION THAT I WATCHED, 3586 02:53:48,411 --> 02:53:50,346 WHICH IS THE PATIENT, WHICH ALSO 3587 02:53:50,346 --> 02:53:51,147 WE COMMUNICATE WHERE YOU CAN 3588 02:53:51,147 --> 02:53:53,182 STREAM IT, SO IT WAS ON HULU. 3589 02:53:53,182 --> 02:53:54,750 IF YOU'VE EVER WATCHED THAT, IT 3590 02:53:54,750 --> 02:53:56,352 WAS PRETTY INTENSE IN OTHER 3591 02:53:56,352 --> 02:53:56,752 WAYS. 3592 02:53:56,752 --> 02:53:59,155 SO I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME 3593 02:53:59,155 --> 02:54:03,159 MORE SUGGESTIONS, AND HERE I AM. 3594 02:54:03,159 --> 02:54:05,761 SO WHAT ABOUT THIS SONG, WHY DID 3595 02:54:05,761 --> 02:54:06,729 I KNOW THIS SONG? 3596 02:54:06,729 --> 02:54:10,066 THIS IS THE TRANSLATION OF IT. 3597 02:54:10,066 --> 02:54:12,435 IT TALKS ABOUT THESE TWO TOWNS 3598 02:54:12,435 --> 02:54:18,241 THAT HAVE VERY FUNNY NAMES, 3599 02:54:18,241 --> 02:54:26,149 SVASTOPOL AND SIFARUPPUL AND 3600 02:54:26,149 --> 02:54:31,320 THIS TOWN NEARBY CALLED 3601 02:54:31,320 --> 02:54:35,124 ZHANKOYE, AND IT'S A FARM WHERE 3602 02:54:35,124 --> 02:54:37,426 GRANDPA DRIVES THE TRACTOR AND 3603 02:54:37,426 --> 02:54:38,828 GRANDMA RUNS THE CREAM 3604 02:54:38,828 --> 02:54:40,029 EXTRACTOR. 3605 02:54:40,029 --> 02:54:43,065 I SAID, WHERE IS THIS IDYLLIC 3606 02:54:43,065 --> 02:54:44,934 PLACE, AND YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, 3607 02:54:44,934 --> 02:54:47,670 AND WE'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF 3608 02:54:47,670 --> 02:54:50,006 CRIMEA AND UKRAINE, NOT QUITE 3609 02:54:50,006 --> 02:54:56,979 THESE DAYS AN IDYLLIC PLACE. 3610 02:54:56,979 --> 02:55:01,350 SO I WANT TO THANK ALAN FOR 3611 02:55:01,350 --> 02:55:03,052 GOING DOWN THIS TRIP TO MEMORY 3612 02:55:03,052 --> 02:55:03,252 LANE. 3613 02:55:03,252 --> 02:55:04,754 I HEARD A STATEMENT, WHEN IT 3614 02:55:04,754 --> 02:55:06,589 COMES TO TIME TRAVEL, SCIENTISTS 3615 02:55:06,589 --> 02:55:08,758 ALWAYS CHOOSE THE FUTURE BECAUSE 3616 02:55:08,758 --> 02:55:17,733 WE CANNOT GO BACK. 3617 02:55:17,733 --> 02:55:20,536 WE CANNOT GO BACK. 3618 02:55:20,536 --> 02:55:23,506 SO NOW WE'LL GET INTO SOME OTHER 3619 02:55:23,506 --> 02:55:26,676 MOV 3620 02:55:26,676 --> 02:55:27,543 MOVIES. 3621 02:55:27,543 --> 02:55:29,378 ACTUALLY COMING HERE, I WAS 3622 02:55:29,378 --> 02:55:31,847 TRYING TO LOOK UP MY TSA NUMBER 3623 02:55:31,847 --> 02:55:33,649 BECAUSE SOMEHOW IT WASN'T ON MY 3624 02:55:33,649 --> 02:55:35,551 TICKET AND I WASN'T GOING TO 3625 02:55:35,551 --> 02:55:38,187 TAKE MY SHOES OFF AND TAKE MY 3626 02:55:38,187 --> 02:55:39,522 COMPUTER OUT. 3627 02:55:39,522 --> 02:55:40,556 I WAS SEARCHING THROUGH OLD 3628 02:55:40,556 --> 02:55:42,892 NOTES THAT I HAD ON MY PHONE, 3629 02:55:42,892 --> 02:55:45,261 AND I ACTUALLY FOUND THE NOTE 3630 02:55:45,261 --> 02:55:49,699 FROM 2016 THAT SAYS REIN EX 3631 02:55:49,699 --> 02:55:49,999 MACHINA. 3632 02:55:49,999 --> 02:55:51,601 THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MOVIES 3633 02:55:51,601 --> 02:55:53,603 THAT HE HAD SUGGESTED THAT I 3634 02:55:53,603 --> 02:55:53,803 WATCH. 3635 02:55:53,803 --> 02:55:56,572 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU 3636 02:55:56,572 --> 02:55:58,140 WATCHED IT. 3637 02:55:58,140 --> 02:55:58,641 NO? 3638 02:55:58,641 --> 02:56:02,211 ANYWAY, IT'S A GREAT MOVIE. 3639 02:56:02,211 --> 02:56:06,048 IT'S AI BEFORE THERE WAS AI, SO 3640 02:56:06,048 --> 02:56:11,087 IF YOU THINK OF 2001 AND HAL AS 3641 02:56:15,258 --> 02:56:17,593 DEPICTING THE FUTURE, WELL, EX 3642 02:56:17,593 --> 02:56:19,996 MACHINA IS REALLY PREDICTING 3643 02:56:19,996 --> 02:56:21,697 WHERE WE ARE THESE DAYS. 3644 02:56:21,697 --> 02:56:24,166 THE RUNNING LINE IS TO ERASE THE 3645 02:56:24,166 --> 02:56:25,801 LINE BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE IS 3646 02:56:25,801 --> 02:56:28,170 TO OBSCURE THE LINE BETWEEN MEN 3647 02:56:28,170 --> 02:56:29,138 AND GODS. 3648 02:56:29,138 --> 02:56:30,640 DON'T YOU WANT TO WATCH THAT 3649 02:56:30,640 --> 02:56:31,807 MOVIE? 3650 02:56:31,807 --> 02:56:32,942 MIRACULOUSLY, IT'S NOW STREAMING 3651 02:56:32,942 --> 02:56:34,176 ON AMAZON. 3652 02:56:34,176 --> 02:56:37,346 IT JUST CAME BACK TO BE ON 3653 02:56:37,346 --> 02:56:37,613 AMAZON. 3654 02:56:37,613 --> 02:56:39,849 SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO WATCH 3655 02:56:39,849 --> 02:56:42,852 THE BRITISH BAKE SHOW, YOU CAN 3656 02:56:42,852 --> 02:56:50,793 WATCH EX MACHINA AND AFTER THAT 3657 02:56:50,793 --> 02:56:51,861 RECOMMENDATION FROM ALAN, I 3658 02:56:51,861 --> 02:56:53,963 TRUST ALL OF HIS 3659 02:56:53,963 --> 02:56:54,330 RECOMMENDATIONS. 3660 02:56:54,330 --> 02:56:55,531 HERE'S MORE MOVIE SUGGESTIONS 3661 02:56:55,531 --> 02:57:03,306 FROM ALAN. 3662 02:57:03,306 --> 02:57:07,410 AND SOME OF HIS COMMENTS. 3663 02:57:07,410 --> 02:57:09,879 OUTLANDER IS COMPELLING, NOT TO 3664 02:57:09,879 --> 02:57:11,847 SAY ADDICTIVE, BUT I THINK HE 3665 02:57:11,847 --> 02:57:13,949 DOESN'T WATCH IT ANYMORE. 3666 02:57:13,949 --> 02:57:15,618 AND THEN THE TRIAL OF THE 3667 02:57:15,618 --> 02:57:17,320 CHICAGO SEVEN ON NETFLIX, TOOK 3668 02:57:17,320 --> 02:57:19,955 ME RIGHT BACK TO 1968. 3669 02:57:19,955 --> 02:57:20,990 AMAZING, MUST WATCH. 3670 02:57:20,990 --> 02:57:22,491 THAT WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE, I 3671 02:57:22,491 --> 02:57:23,159 DID WATCH IT. 3672 02:57:23,159 --> 02:57:25,094 THE DANISH GIRL, NOT TO BE 3673 02:57:25,094 --> 02:57:25,361 MISSED. 3674 02:57:25,361 --> 02:57:26,195 I AGREE. 3675 02:57:26,195 --> 02:57:27,897 THE SIXTH SENSE IS DYNAMITE. 3676 02:57:27,897 --> 02:57:31,367 THEN SOME OTHER ONES THAT I HAD 3677 02:57:31,367 --> 02:57:33,035 FROM DIFFERENT E-MAILS, 3678 02:57:33,035 --> 02:57:35,738 OPPENHEIMER, THE 3 BODY PROBLEM, 3679 02:57:35,738 --> 02:57:38,174 AMERICAN FICTION, DISOBEDIENCE, 3680 02:57:38,174 --> 02:57:42,445 THE QUEENS GAMBIT, AND ALAN 3681 02:57:42,445 --> 02:57:45,614 WROTE, THE SOPHIE LOREN MOVIE, 3682 02:57:45,614 --> 02:57:48,384 AND IF YOU ACTUALLY GOOGLE THE 3683 02:57:48,384 --> 02:57:50,486 SOPHIE LOREN MOVIE, YOU'LL 3684 02:57:50,486 --> 02:57:51,821 ACTUALLY FIND THE TITLE OF IT. 3685 02:57:51,821 --> 02:57:52,888 IT ACTUALLY DOES WORK. 3686 02:57:52,888 --> 02:57:56,959 SO I WATCHED THEM, AND I AGREE. 3687 02:57:56,959 --> 02:57:58,661 SORT OF IN CONCLUSION, I THINK 3688 02:57:58,661 --> 02:58:00,529 ALAN IN HIS RESEARCH AND IN HIS 3689 02:58:00,529 --> 02:58:04,467 MOVIES ARE ALWAYS ON THE CUTTING 3690 02:58:04,467 --> 02:58:06,869 EDGE, AND AS YOU KNOW, THE NOBEL 3691 02:58:06,869 --> 02:58:09,472 PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY THIS YEAR WAS 3692 02:58:09,472 --> 02:58:12,041 ABOUT AI AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF 3693 02:58:12,041 --> 02:58:15,177 AI MODELS TO STUDY PROTEIN 3694 02:58:15,177 --> 02:58:15,478 PREDICTIONS. 3695 02:58:15,478 --> 02:58:17,646 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MY OWN 3696 02:58:17,646 --> 02:58:19,915 WORK, BUT WE ACTUALLY DURING 3697 02:58:19,915 --> 02:58:21,484 COVID, BECAUSE WE COULDN'T DO 3698 02:58:21,484 --> 02:58:23,252 WET BENCH WORK, WE ACTUALLY 3699 02:58:23,252 --> 02:58:26,055 STARTED TO DO PROTEIN PREDICTION 3700 02:58:26,055 --> 02:58:27,757 STUDIES, AND WE HAVE A PAPER NOW 3701 02:58:27,757 --> 02:58:30,126 COMING OUT -- WELL, IT WAS 3702 02:58:30,126 --> 02:58:32,094 SUBMIT 3703 02:58:32,094 --> 02:58:33,262 SUBMITTED. 3704 02:58:33,262 --> 02:58:35,097 STUDYING HOW RECEPTOR 3705 02:58:35,097 --> 02:58:36,966 TRANSPORTERS WHO HAVE TWO 3706 02:58:36,966 --> 02:58:40,536 DIFFERENT CONFIRMATIONS. 3707 02:58:40,536 --> 02:58:42,705 IF YOU USE ALPHA FOLD, YOU'LL 3708 02:58:42,705 --> 02:58:44,640 PROBABLY ONLY GET ONE OF THE TWO 3709 02:58:44,640 --> 02:58:45,641 CONFIRMATIONS, AND WE WORKED OUT 3710 02:58:45,641 --> 02:58:48,577 A WAY, A METHOD TO GET BOTH 3711 02:58:48,577 --> 02:58:50,146 INWARD AND OUTWARD CONFIRMATION 3712 02:58:50,146 --> 02:58:51,847 FOR THIS -- FOR ANY PROTEIN, BUT 3713 02:58:51,847 --> 02:58:55,084 WE STARTED THIS BECAUSE WE HAD 3714 02:58:55,084 --> 02:59:02,158 IDENTIFIED -- RERANDOMIZED THE 3715 02:59:02,158 --> 02:59:04,827 RECEPTIVE BINDING DOMAINS OF 3716 02:59:04,827 --> 02:59:06,662 LEUKEMIA VIRUSES, WE IDENTIFIED 3717 02:59:06,662 --> 02:59:07,696 FUNCTIONAL ENVELOPES, AND WE 3718 02:59:07,696 --> 02:59:09,899 IDENTIFIED THE RECEPTORS. 3719 02:59:09,899 --> 02:59:15,271 ONE OF THEM IS THIS SLC-14 3720 02:59:15,271 --> 02:59:15,571 PROTEIN. 3721 02:59:15,571 --> 02:59:17,106 IT'S A RECEPTOR, AND WE STILL 3722 02:59:17,106 --> 02:59:18,541 DON'T KNOW WHAT IT TRANSPORTS, 3723 02:59:18,541 --> 02:59:20,009 BUT WE STARTED TO DO STRUCTURAL 3724 02:59:20,009 --> 02:59:22,044 WORK, PREDICTIONS OF IT DURING 3725 02:59:22,044 --> 02:59:23,112 COVID, AND NOW WE HAVE THIS 3726 02:59:23,112 --> 02:59:24,413 METHOD THAT LOOKS PRETTY GOOD 3727 02:59:24,413 --> 02:59:27,049 AND WE'RE ABLE TO PREDICT THE 3728 02:59:27,049 --> 02:59:30,319 DIFFERENT CONFORMATIONS. 3729 02:59:30,319 --> 02:59:32,721 SO I WANT TO THANK ALAN FOR 3730 02:59:32,721 --> 02:59:35,357 OPENING MY EYES TO AI BACK IN 3731 02:59:35,357 --> 02:59:37,793 2015 WITH EX MACHINA, AND I JUST 3732 02:59:37,793 --> 02:59:38,561 APPRECIATE EVERYTHING HE'S DONE 3733 02:59:38,561 --> 02:59:41,297 AS A RESEARCHER, MENTOR, FRIEND, 3734 02:59:41,297 --> 02:59:42,097 AND MOVIE CRITIC. 3735 02:59:42,097 --> 02:59:52,274 THANK YOU. 3736 03:00:04,420 --> 03:00:05,988 >> WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING NOW? 3737 03:00:05,988 --> 03:00:08,491 >> THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING 3738 03:00:08,491 --> 03:00:12,428 SHOW EVERY FRIDAY. 3739 03:00:12,428 --> 03:00:13,629 >> WHO ARE YOU HOPING TO WIN 3740 03:00:13,629 --> 03:00:14,597 THE BAKEOFF? 3741 03:00:14,597 --> 03:00:17,099 >> I DO LIKE DYLAN. 3742 03:00:17,099 --> 03:00:27,343 >> HE'S CUTE. 3743 03:00:39,221 --> 03:00:41,390 >> THAT WAS ABOUT THE NICEST 3744 03:00:41,390 --> 03:00:46,729 TALK I'VE EVER HEARD. 3745 03:00:46,729 --> 03:00:47,062 THANK YOU. 3746 03:00:47,062 --> 03:00:50,466 SO OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ONE OF A 3747 03:00:50,466 --> 03:00:55,938 SERIES OF SPEAKERS WHO NEEDS NO 3748 03:00:55,938 --> 03:00:56,272 INTRODUCTION. 3749 03:00:56,272 --> 03:00:59,341 IT'S STEVE GOFF, WHO HAS BEEN AT 3750 03:00:59,341 --> 03:01:08,751 COLUMBIA FOR PROBABLY A FEW 3751 03:01:08,751 --> 03:01:09,018 DECADES. 3752 03:01:09,018 --> 03:01:10,619 HE AND I WERE BOTH INTERESTED IN 3753 03:01:10,619 --> 03:01:14,223 HOW RETROVIRUSES WORK BEFORE HIV 3754 03:01:14,223 --> 03:01:16,825 CAME ALONG, AND THEREFORE, WE 3755 03:01:16,825 --> 03:01:20,362 BOTH BEGAN WORKING WITH MURINE 3756 03:01:20,362 --> 03:01:22,598 LEUKEMIA VIRUSES. 3757 03:01:22,598 --> 03:01:26,902 I'LL JUST SAY IN 25 WORDS OR 3758 03:01:26,902 --> 03:01:30,139 LESS THAT STEVE HAS REALLY FOUND 3759 03:01:30,139 --> 03:01:33,108 ONE AMAZING SURPRISE AFTER 3760 03:01:33,108 --> 03:01:33,342 ANOTHER. 3761 03:01:33,342 --> 03:01:38,080 HE ALWAYS, LIKE MONICA STRANGELY 3762 03:01:38,080 --> 03:01:39,848 WAS SAYING ABOUT ME, HE ALWAYS 3763 03:01:39,848 --> 03:01:41,250 COMES UP WITH SOMETHING QUITE 3764 03:01:41,250 --> 03:01:42,885 NEW AND UNEXPECTED, CONNECTIONS 3765 03:01:42,885 --> 03:01:45,354 BETWEEN THE VIRUSES THAT WE KNOW 3766 03:01:45,354 --> 03:01:47,456 A LOT ABOUT AND THE CELLS WHICH 3767 03:01:47,456 --> 03:01:49,458 ARE STILL LARGELY BLACK BOXES, 3768 03:01:49,458 --> 03:01:50,326 AT LEAST COMPARED TO THE 3769 03:01:50,326 --> 03:01:57,967 VIRUSES. 3770 03:01:57,967 --> 03:01:59,602 I THINK I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT 3771 03:01:59,602 --> 03:01:59,868 THAT. 3772 03:01:59,868 --> 03:02:01,937 STEVE, THANK YOU FOR COMING. 3773 03:02:01,937 --> 03:02:03,105 I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT YOU'RE 3774 03:02:03,105 --> 03:02:04,473 GOING TO SAY, BUT I'M LOOKING 3775 03:02:04,473 --> 03:02:14,717 FORWARD TO IT. 3776 03:02:23,993 --> 03:02:24,893 >> ALAN THANK YOU. 3777 03:02:24,893 --> 03:02:33,936 IT IS REALLY A PLEASURE. 3778 03:02:33,936 --> 03:02:35,437 LET'S GET STARTED. 3779 03:02:35,437 --> 03:02:37,806 I'M GOING TO DO TWO THINGS IN 3780 03:02:37,806 --> 03:02:39,508 THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. 3781 03:02:39,508 --> 03:02:40,876 I'LL SPEND SOME TIME KIND OF 3782 03:02:40,876 --> 03:02:42,978 DOING A LITTLE HISTORY, AND IF 3783 03:02:42,978 --> 03:02:45,214 THERE'S AN IMPORTANT TAKE AWAY 3784 03:02:45,214 --> 03:02:48,617 FROM THIS, IT'S HOW MUCH ALAN 3785 03:02:48,617 --> 03:02:50,853 HAS BEEN A ROLE MODEL FOR ME, 3786 03:02:50,853 --> 03:02:52,154 FOR EVERYTHING I'VE DONE HAS 3787 03:02:52,154 --> 03:02:53,355 REALLY FOLLOWED IN ALAN'S FOOT 3788 03:02:53,355 --> 03:03:03,198 STEPS. 3789 03:03:03,198 --> 03:03:04,833 THEN I'LL TRY TO GIVE YOU A 3790 03:03:04,833 --> 03:03:05,734 BRIEF SCIENCE TALK ABOUT THINGS 3791 03:03:05,734 --> 03:03:07,169 THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE LAB, 3792 03:03:07,169 --> 03:03:09,872 WHICH I THINK ALAN WOULD LIKE TO 3793 03:03:09,872 --> 03:03:18,047 HAVE ALWAYS ALWAYS REAL SCIENCE 3794 03:03:18,047 --> 03:03:18,313 BUILT IN. 3795 03:03:18,313 --> 03:03:28,624 THIS IS THE TRUTH. 3796 03:03:29,124 --> 03:03:32,461 THIS IS ALWAYS THE TRUTH BECAUSE 3797 03:03:32,461 --> 03:03:35,164 WE OFTEN HAVE THINGS THAT WE'RE 3798 03:03:35,164 --> 03:03:36,165 INSPIRED BY BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T 3799 03:03:36,165 --> 03:03:38,200 KNOW THIS IS A COOL TOPIC TO 3800 03:03:38,200 --> 03:03:41,904 WORK ON IF IT WEREN'T FOR ALAN. 3801 03:03:41,904 --> 03:03:47,476 A FEW EXAMPLES ARE NC MUTANTS, 3802 03:03:47,476 --> 03:03:52,748 THE GAG-POL READTHROUGH, 3803 03:03:52,748 --> 03:03:54,216 MYRISTATE AND L DOMAINS. 3804 03:03:54,216 --> 03:03:55,517 ALL OF THESE YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT, 3805 03:03:55,517 --> 03:03:57,152 AND ALL OF THESE ALAN INSPIRED 3806 03:03:57,152 --> 03:03:58,687 US TO WORK ON BECAUSE HE MADE 3807 03:03:58,687 --> 03:04:00,723 SOME DISCOVERY ABOUT THESE. 3808 03:04:00,723 --> 03:04:02,191 I THINK LOOKING BACK AT THE 3809 03:04:02,191 --> 03:04:03,859 HISTORY PART, THE FIRST TIME I 3810 03:04:03,859 --> 03:04:05,661 MET ALAN MAYBE, YOU MAY CORRECT 3811 03:04:05,661 --> 03:04:06,995 ME, WAS WHEN I WAS JUST STARTING 3812 03:04:06,995 --> 03:04:10,099 OUT AS A POST DOC IN DAVID 3813 03:04:10,099 --> 03:04:11,200 BALTIMORE'S LAB. 3814 03:04:11,200 --> 03:04:13,202 THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN 1979, AND I 3815 03:04:13,202 --> 03:04:22,945 THINK HE WAS ON A SITE VISIT 3816 03:04:22,945 --> 03:04:26,115 PANEL REVIEWING A GRANT, AND I 3817 03:04:26,115 --> 03:04:27,983 THINK FOR SOME REASON HE HAD ME 3818 03:04:27,983 --> 03:04:30,419 PRESENT A REVIEW STUDY TO THE 3819 03:04:30,419 --> 03:04:30,619 PANEL. 3820 03:04:30,619 --> 03:04:32,154 SO I WAS TERRIFIED, OF COURSE. 3821 03:04:32,154 --> 03:04:35,357 THIS WAS ME JUST STARTING INTO 3822 03:04:35,357 --> 03:04:37,259 RETROVIRUSES FROM SB-40. 3823 03:04:37,259 --> 03:04:39,862 SO OF COURSE I HAD READ ALL OF 3824 03:04:39,862 --> 03:04:40,863 ALAN'S PAPERS AND WAS 3825 03:04:40,863 --> 03:04:43,132 INTERESTED, ACTUALLY EVEN THEN, 3826 03:04:43,132 --> 03:04:47,970 IN THINGS LIKE FV-1 WHICH 3827 03:04:47,970 --> 03:04:49,872 INTRIGUED ME WITH MLV, AND THERE 3828 03:04:49,872 --> 03:04:52,241 WAS THIS GUY ALAN REIN, WHO I 3829 03:04:52,241 --> 03:04:53,842 HAD TO PRESENT AND BE REVIEWED 3830 03:04:53,842 --> 03:04:54,143 BY. 3831 03:04:54,143 --> 03:04:56,078 SO I DID, AND DAVID OF COURSE 3832 03:04:56,078 --> 03:05:01,250 GOT THE GRANT, THANK YOU, BUT 3833 03:05:01,250 --> 03:05:02,985 I'M SURE THROUGH NO VALUE OF 3834 03:05:02,985 --> 03:05:03,952 ANYTHING I SAID BECAUSE I HAVE 3835 03:05:03,952 --> 03:05:05,821 NO CLUE WHAT I SAID IN THAT 3836 03:05:05,821 --> 03:05:09,091 PRESENTATION, BUT THERE WAS 3837 03:05:09,091 --> 03:05:09,291 ALAN. 3838 03:05:09,291 --> 03:05:16,932 OVER THE YEARS SINCE THEN, I 3839 03:05:16,932 --> 03:05:19,835 HAVE GOTTEN REAGENT AFTER 3840 03:05:19,835 --> 03:05:21,270 REAGENT AFTER REAGENT FROM HIM, 3841 03:05:21,270 --> 03:05:22,471 AND EVERY TIME HE SENDS ME 3842 03:05:22,471 --> 03:05:24,072 EXACTLY WHAT I ASK FOR, AND IT'S 3843 03:05:24,072 --> 03:05:25,040 ALWAYS PERFECT AND IT'S JUST 3844 03:05:25,040 --> 03:05:25,874 WHAT I NEEDED. 3845 03:05:25,874 --> 03:05:28,010 WHEN I STARTED OUT, THE FIRST 3846 03:05:28,010 --> 03:05:31,213 THING I FELT I HAD TO DO WAS SET 3847 03:05:31,213 --> 03:05:32,447 UP A PLAQUE ASSAY BECAUSE THAT'S 3848 03:05:32,447 --> 03:05:34,783 WHAT I THOUGHT YOU NEEDED FOR 3849 03:05:34,783 --> 03:05:35,050 VIROLOGY. 3850 03:05:35,050 --> 03:05:41,323 THAT IN THOSE DAYS WAS THE XE 3851 03:05:41,323 --> 03:05:43,926 PLATH ASSAY, WHICH WAS A TRICKY 3852 03:05:43,926 --> 03:05:45,928 ASSAY, AND ALAN SENT THE XE 3853 03:05:45,928 --> 03:05:48,130 CELLS AROUND AND THE VERY TRICKY 3854 03:05:48,130 --> 03:05:49,798 PROTOCOL HOW TO DO IT, AND WE 3855 03:05:49,798 --> 03:05:50,365 GOT GOING. 3856 03:05:50,365 --> 03:05:52,234 THAT WAS HOW WE STARTED OUT 3857 03:05:52,234 --> 03:05:52,768 ASSAYING VIRUS. 3858 03:05:52,768 --> 03:05:54,403 IT WAS SO HARD THAT I WANTED 3859 03:05:54,403 --> 03:05:56,839 BETTER ASSAYS, SO WE DID SET UP 3860 03:05:56,839 --> 03:05:58,974 BETTER ASSAYS LATER THAT WERE 3861 03:05:58,974 --> 03:05:59,308 EASIER. 3862 03:05:59,308 --> 03:06:01,710 BUT ALL OF THE CONCEPTS THAT 3863 03:06:01,710 --> 03:06:11,687 FLOWED INTO MY WORK WERE THE 3864 03:06:11,687 --> 03:06:14,389 VERY FIRST RECOMBINANT CLONES 3865 03:06:14,389 --> 03:06:16,124 THAT ALLOWED YOU TO DO THINGS, 3866 03:06:16,124 --> 03:06:17,960 AND ALAN AND I RAN WITH THAT AS 3867 03:06:17,960 --> 03:06:19,494 FAR AS WE COULD, AND IT'S BEEN A 3868 03:06:19,494 --> 03:06:20,028 GOOD RIDE. 3869 03:06:20,028 --> 03:06:21,396 LET ME TALK SOME OF THE 3870 03:06:21,396 --> 03:06:21,730 EXAMPLES. 3871 03:06:21,730 --> 03:06:23,065 YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THIS BEFORE. 3872 03:06:23,065 --> 03:06:25,934 IN THE EARLY ABILITY TO MAKE 3873 03:06:25,934 --> 03:06:27,469 MUTANTS AND CLONE DNA WAS WHAT 3874 03:06:27,469 --> 03:06:28,937 ALLOWED FOR THE WORK TO SHOW 3875 03:06:28,937 --> 03:06:31,206 THAT NC WAS REALLY IMPORTANT AND 3876 03:06:31,206 --> 03:06:32,808 WHAT IT DID AND HOW IT WAS 3877 03:06:32,808 --> 03:06:35,010 INVOLVED IN PACKAGING, AND THIS 3878 03:06:35,010 --> 03:06:37,479 WAS ONE OF THE BIG PAPERS FROM 3879 03:06:37,479 --> 03:06:40,148 BOB AND ALAN, AND WE FOLLOWED 3880 03:06:40,148 --> 03:06:41,783 CLOSELY UP, ALWAYS BEHIND OF 3881 03:06:41,783 --> 03:06:44,052 COURSE, TO DO SIMILAR THINGS 3882 03:06:44,052 --> 03:06:46,722 WITH CLAUDE TO LOOK AT NC 3883 03:06:46,722 --> 03:06:48,824 MUTANTS. 3884 03:06:48,824 --> 03:06:50,025 WE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A 3885 03:06:50,025 --> 03:06:51,593 GOOD THING TO DO BECAUSE OF 3886 03:06:51,593 --> 03:06:52,127 ALAN. 3887 03:06:52,127 --> 03:06:54,529 HERE'S ANOTHER ONE WHERE IN VERY 3888 03:06:54,529 --> 03:06:58,033 EARLY DAYS WITH STEVE OROSZLAN, 3889 03:06:58,033 --> 03:07:00,502 BASED FIRST ON THE PROTEIN 3890 03:07:00,502 --> 03:07:04,072 SEQUENCES REALLY, THAT THIS 3891 03:07:04,072 --> 03:07:06,008 GAG-POL READTHROUGH THING HAD TO 3892 03:07:06,008 --> 03:07:08,944 BE IN FRAME AND INVOLVE 3893 03:07:08,944 --> 03:07:12,080 READTHROUGH OF THE STOP CODON, 3894 03:07:12,080 --> 03:07:12,447 AMAZING. 3895 03:07:12,447 --> 03:07:13,248 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALWAYS 3896 03:07:13,248 --> 03:07:15,117 BLEW ME AWAY, THIS WAS NOT 3897 03:07:15,117 --> 03:07:17,119 UNIVERSAL FOR ALL RETROVIRUSES, 3898 03:07:17,119 --> 03:07:18,287 SOMETIMES THEY DID FRAME 3899 03:07:18,287 --> 03:07:19,755 SHIFTING INSTEAD OF READTHROUGH, 3900 03:07:19,755 --> 03:07:21,390 THAT'S CRAZY, BUT THAT'S THE WAY 3901 03:07:21,390 --> 03:07:21,723 IT IS. 3902 03:07:21,723 --> 03:07:23,392 IT JUST SHOWS YOU THAT DIFFERENT 3903 03:07:23,392 --> 03:07:24,660 VIRUSES DO DIFFERENT THINGS, THE 3904 03:07:24,660 --> 03:07:27,029 SAME THING IN DIFFERENT WAYS. 3905 03:07:27,029 --> 03:07:28,297 WITH THAT, OF COURSE THEN YOU 3906 03:07:28,297 --> 03:07:30,365 HAVE A CLONE, SO YOU CAN 3907 03:07:30,365 --> 03:07:33,302 MANIPULATE THE NATURE OF THE 3908 03:07:33,302 --> 03:07:40,475 READTHROUGH FEATURES, AND ALAN 3909 03:07:40,475 --> 03:07:46,381 DID THAT WITH QD-11. 3910 03:07:46,381 --> 03:07:48,417 AND THERE WAS A READTHROUGH FOR 3911 03:07:48,417 --> 03:07:50,452 THAT, AND THOSE WERE SEMINAL 3912 03:07:50,452 --> 03:07:52,220 PAPERS, AND IN MY LAB THEY WERE 3913 03:07:52,220 --> 03:07:54,022 ABLE TO FOLLOW UP AND DO MORE. 3914 03:07:54,022 --> 03:07:55,691 FROM FEELING YOUR WAY AROUND, 3915 03:07:55,691 --> 03:07:57,592 LIKE FEELING THE ELEPHANT, YOU 3916 03:07:57,592 --> 03:07:59,561 LEARN WHAT'S REQUIRED. 3917 03:07:59,561 --> 03:08:02,764 IN THE END, YEARS LATER, THAT IS 3918 03:08:02,764 --> 03:08:03,966 ANOTHER COMMON THING THAT YOU 3919 03:08:03,966 --> 03:08:05,901 GET CONNECTED TO SERIOUS 3920 03:08:05,901 --> 03:08:07,970 STRUCTURE PEOPLE WHO HELP YOU 3921 03:08:07,970 --> 03:08:09,438 TRANS 3922 03:08:09,438 --> 03:08:11,506 TRANSLATE THE MUTATIONAL STUDY 3923 03:08:11,506 --> 03:08:14,509 YOU DID TO TURN THE LIGHT ON AND 3924 03:08:14,509 --> 03:08:23,251 ACTUALLY SEE THE STRUCTURE, AND 3925 03:08:23,251 --> 03:08:26,221 WE CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE LIKE 3926 03:08:26,221 --> 03:08:29,024 VICKY AND MIKE, AND THAT BECOME 3927 03:08:29,024 --> 03:08:34,596 THE PSEUDOKNOT, AND WE LEARNED 3928 03:08:34,596 --> 03:08:36,398 WHICH OF THESE FEATURES ARE 3929 03:08:36,398 --> 03:08:40,168 REALLY IMPORTANT. 3930 03:08:40,168 --> 03:08:42,938 IT HAS SOME AMAZING FEATURES. 3931 03:08:42,938 --> 03:08:44,673 IT TURNS OUT TO BE, THE 3932 03:08:44,673 --> 03:08:45,974 STRUCTURE ITSELF, TURNS OUT TO 3933 03:08:45,974 --> 03:08:48,944 BE INCREDIBLY PH DEPENDENT 3934 03:08:48,944 --> 03:08:51,313 BECAUSE THERE'S A SINGLE 3935 03:08:51,313 --> 03:08:52,447 PROTONAT 3936 03:08:52,447 --> 03:08:54,783 PROTONATED BASE THERE ON THE 3937 03:08:54,783 --> 03:08:57,953 RIGHT THAT CHANGES THE STRUCTURE 3938 03:08:57,953 --> 03:08:59,821 COMPLETELY BECAUSE OF FUNCTION. 3939 03:08:59,821 --> 03:09:03,158 THAT'S A CONCEPT OF ENSEMBLES IN 3940 03:09:03,158 --> 03:09:05,293 OUR STRUCTURES THAT MY NEW 3941 03:09:05,293 --> 03:09:09,698 COLLEAGUE AL HASHIMA MAKES FOR A 3942 03:09:09,698 --> 03:09:12,834 LIVING, AND THIS PSEUDOKNOT IS 3943 03:09:12,834 --> 03:09:14,736 THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT. 3944 03:09:14,736 --> 03:09:15,737 THERE'S STILL TONS TO LEARN 3945 03:09:15,737 --> 03:09:17,339 ABOUT HOW THIS WORKS, HOW IT 3946 03:09:17,339 --> 03:09:18,874 INTERACTS WITH THE RIBOSOME, HOW 3947 03:09:18,874 --> 03:09:20,475 IT TELLS THE RIBOSOME TO DO ALL 3948 03:09:20,475 --> 03:09:21,910 THE THINGS IT MUST BE TELLING IT 3949 03:09:21,910 --> 03:09:24,246 TO DO, BUT AGAIN THIS ALL 3950 03:09:24,246 --> 03:09:31,953 STARTED WAY BACK WITH OROSZLAN 3951 03:09:31,953 --> 03:09:34,022 AND ALAN'S PROTEIN SEQUENCE. 3952 03:09:34,022 --> 03:09:36,858 ANOTHER ONE IS THE WHOLE 3953 03:09:36,858 --> 03:09:39,494 INSTALLATION STORY, THE VERY 3954 03:09:39,494 --> 03:09:46,902 TERMINUS OF GAG. 3955 03:09:46,902 --> 03:09:53,275 THE GAG PROTEIN IS NOT 3956 03:09:53,275 --> 03:09:54,643 MYRISTYLATABLE, SO THE GAG DOES 3957 03:09:54,643 --> 03:09:57,012 NOT GET TO THE MEMBRANE AND DOES 3958 03:09:57,012 --> 03:09:59,181 NOT BUILD PARTICLES. 3959 03:09:59,181 --> 03:10:00,415 IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE 3960 03:10:00,415 --> 03:10:01,349 STRONGEST PHENOTYPES FOR 3961 03:10:01,349 --> 03:10:04,352 ANYTHING WITH A SINGLE AMINO 3962 03:10:04,352 --> 03:10:05,020 ACID CHANGE. 3963 03:10:05,020 --> 03:10:06,321 THAT JUST CRYSTALLIZED US TO 3964 03:10:06,321 --> 03:10:07,856 KEEP WORKING ON IT OVER THE 3965 03:10:07,856 --> 03:10:08,056 YEARS. 3966 03:10:08,056 --> 03:10:09,724 ONE OF THE HOLY GRAILS WAS, 3967 03:10:09,724 --> 03:10:12,828 WELL, IS THIS A PURELY 3968 03:10:12,828 --> 03:10:20,502 SPONTANEOUS THING THAT A 3969 03:10:20,502 --> 03:10:22,270 MYRISTYLATED PROTEIN IS PUT INTO 3970 03:10:22,270 --> 03:10:22,938 A CARRIER. 3971 03:10:22,938 --> 03:10:25,373 WE WENT LOOKING AND NEVER FIND A 3972 03:10:25,373 --> 03:10:28,143 CARRIER PROTEIN THAT DID IT, BUT 3973 03:10:28,143 --> 03:10:32,214 WE DID FIND BY PROTEOMICS, A 3974 03:10:32,214 --> 03:10:33,715 BINDING PROTEIN. 3975 03:10:33,715 --> 03:10:36,418 IT HAS THE PERFECT POCKET, IT 3976 03:10:36,418 --> 03:10:40,956 BINDS MYRISTASTE. 3977 03:10:40,956 --> 03:10:51,066 IT DOESN'T BIND NON-MYRISTATED 3978 03:10:51,066 --> 03:10:52,167 PROTEINS. 3979 03:10:52,167 --> 03:10:54,136 IT'S PROBABLY GOT A BROAD ROLE, 3980 03:10:54,136 --> 03:10:56,171 AND THAT CONNECTED US TO 3981 03:10:56,171 --> 03:10:59,040 STRUCTURE PEOPLE SAYING, WELL, 3982 03:10:59,040 --> 03:11:00,909 WE CAN CRYSTALLIZE THESE. 3983 03:11:00,909 --> 03:11:03,311 AND THERE'S THE MYRISTATE 3984 03:11:03,311 --> 03:11:05,714 SITTING IN THIS POCKET. 3985 03:11:05,714 --> 03:11:11,653 ALL AMINO ACIDS MAKE CONTACT, 3986 03:11:11,653 --> 03:11:14,689 AND THEY TOTALLY IMPACT THE 3987 03:11:14,689 --> 03:11:16,224 CO-IT OF THESE PROTEINS THAT SIT 3988 03:11:16,224 --> 03:11:17,292 IN THIS BLOCK. 3989 03:11:17,292 --> 03:11:18,760 THESE ARE THE KINDS OF THREADS 3990 03:11:18,760 --> 03:11:21,296 THAT ALL EMANATE FROM A STARTING 3991 03:11:21,296 --> 03:11:22,631 POINT. 3992 03:11:22,631 --> 03:11:26,835 I THINK THIS IS STILL RIPE FOR 3993 03:11:26,835 --> 03:11:27,435 LOTS MORE WORK. 3994 03:11:27,435 --> 03:11:28,803 IT LOOKS LIKE, IF ANYTHING, THIS 3995 03:11:28,803 --> 03:11:30,438 IS PROBABLY NOT A CARRIER 3996 03:11:30,438 --> 03:11:32,107 PROTEIN THAT DELIVERS IT TO THE 3997 03:11:32,107 --> 03:11:32,374 MEMBRANE. 3998 03:11:32,374 --> 03:11:35,243 IT'S PROBABLY NOT A NEGATIVE 3999 03:11:35,243 --> 03:11:39,147 REGULATOR OF MYRISTOYL 4000 03:11:39,147 --> 03:11:41,449 FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING A KNOCKOUT 4001 03:11:41,449 --> 03:11:43,818 WHERE THE CELLS MAKE THEM WAY 4002 03:11:43,818 --> 03:11:45,420 BETTER AT ASSEMBLING THE 4003 03:11:45,420 --> 03:11:46,755 PARTICLES, WHICH IS COOL. 4004 03:11:46,755 --> 03:11:49,057 THERE'S MORE AND MORE. 4005 03:11:49,057 --> 03:11:52,727 I HAVE TO SAY, IN SPITE OF ALL 4006 03:11:52,727 --> 03:11:54,863 THESE OVERLAPS, ALAN AND I HAVE 4007 03:11:54,863 --> 03:11:56,965 HARDLY EVER PUBLISHED TOGETHER. 4008 03:11:56,965 --> 03:12:00,869 THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW. 4009 03:12:00,869 --> 03:12:06,608 PEOPLE LIKE JOHN WILS AND OTHERS 4010 03:12:06,608 --> 03:12:09,177 DISCOVERED THE INTERCHANGE 4011 03:12:09,177 --> 03:12:11,446 L-DOMAINS, THE FAMOUS SEQUENCES 4012 03:12:11,446 --> 03:12:14,516 IN GAG THAT ARE NECESSARY TO 4013 03:12:14,516 --> 03:12:14,950 EXCHANGE PARTICLES. 4014 03:12:14,950 --> 03:12:16,585 YOU COULD INTERCHANGE THEM, 4015 03:12:16,585 --> 03:12:18,086 EXCHANGE THEM BETWEEN VIRUSES, 4016 03:12:18,086 --> 03:12:19,654 AND WE FOUND THAT WAS TRUE WITH 4017 03:12:19,654 --> 03:12:24,893 MLV, AND ALAN AND I GENERATED A 4018 03:12:24,893 --> 03:12:26,661 WHOLE SERIES OF CONSTRUCTS THAT 4019 03:12:26,661 --> 03:12:29,264 JUST GENERALIZED THAT PHENOMENON 4020 03:12:29,264 --> 03:12:31,866 TO MANY SITES FOR BINDING TO THE 4021 03:12:31,866 --> 03:12:36,938 MANY COMPONENTS OF THE S-CORE 4022 03:12:36,938 --> 03:12:37,205 MACHINERY. 4023 03:12:37,205 --> 03:12:38,740 I'M VERY PROUD TO HAVE THAT ONE 4024 03:12:38,740 --> 03:12:39,441 PAPER IN COMMON. 4025 03:12:39,441 --> 03:12:41,209 JUST TO WRAP UP THIS PART, I 4026 03:12:41,209 --> 03:12:43,378 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REFLECT 4027 03:12:43,378 --> 03:12:46,548 ON WHY AND IN WHAT WAY ALAN HAS 4028 03:12:46,548 --> 03:12:49,451 BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO US ALL, 4029 03:12:49,451 --> 03:12:50,952 FIRST OF ALL, PROFESSIONALLY. 4030 03:12:50,952 --> 03:12:52,487 THE FIRST THING IS HE'S REVIEWED 4031 03:12:52,487 --> 03:12:55,257 MOST OF OUR PAPERS PROBABLY OF 4032 03:12:55,257 --> 03:12:59,294 ALMOST EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM. 4033 03:12:59,294 --> 03:13:00,962 CRITICALLY AND VERY OFTEN 4034 03:13:00,962 --> 03:13:02,464 POSITIVELY, THANKFULLY, AND HE'S 4035 03:13:02,464 --> 03:13:05,233 BEEN AN EDITOR OF ALL THE 4036 03:13:05,233 --> 03:13:08,703 IMPORTANT VIROLOGY JOURNALS LIKE 4037 03:13:08,703 --> 03:13:09,571 JV AND VIROLOGY. 4038 03:13:09,571 --> 03:13:11,773 AS AN EDITOR, I USE HIM ALL THE 4039 03:13:11,773 --> 03:13:13,408 TIME BECAUSE HE ALWAYS GIVES ME 4040 03:13:13,408 --> 03:13:15,143 BACK FAIR AND ACCURATE REVIEWS 4041 03:13:15,143 --> 03:13:16,611 OF ALL THE PAPERS THAT I GIVE 4042 03:13:16,611 --> 03:13:17,812 HIM, WHICH IS GREAT. 4043 03:13:17,812 --> 03:13:21,049 ALAN RUNS THE BIG MEETINGS LIKE 4044 03:13:21,049 --> 03:13:28,390 COLD SPRING HARBOR AND THE MANY 4045 03:13:28,390 --> 03:13:33,328 NUCLEAR CAPSID SYMPOSIA THAT 4046 03:13:33,328 --> 03:13:35,897 WILL BE RUN IN PRAGUE NEXT YEAR. 4047 03:13:35,897 --> 03:13:37,999 HE DOES GIVE AMAZING 4048 03:13:37,999 --> 03:13:39,734 PRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING AT THE 4049 03:13:39,734 --> 03:13:42,237 WEST COAST RETROVIRUS MEETING, 4050 03:13:42,237 --> 03:13:45,040 AND AS ALREADY MENTIONED, AT THE 4051 03:13:45,040 --> 03:13:48,443 2016 TALK, WHICH IS A CAREER 4052 03:13:48,443 --> 03:13:50,478 LIFETIME TALK, IT'S MENTIONED IN 4053 03:13:50,478 --> 03:13:52,514 LINKABLE, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE 4054 03:13:52,514 --> 03:13:54,082 EVERYBODY TO SEE HIS TALK 4055 03:13:54,082 --> 03:13:55,583 BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A WALK DOWN 4056 03:13:55,583 --> 03:13:56,851 THE LANE OF MLV AND THE HISTORY. 4057 03:13:56,851 --> 03:14:01,723 TERRIFIC. 4058 03:14:01,723 --> 03:14:03,191 NOW THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY 4059 03:14:03,191 --> 03:14:04,793 ABOUT MY MEMORIES OF THE TIME 4060 03:14:04,793 --> 03:14:05,794 WITH ALAN. 4061 03:14:05,794 --> 03:14:08,096 I JUST WOULD END THAT PART AND 4062 03:14:08,096 --> 03:14:09,664 JUST SAY THAT THE MOST CRITICAL 4063 03:14:09,664 --> 03:14:11,666 THING TO ME IS HE'S ALWAYS THERE 4064 03:14:11,666 --> 03:14:13,101 WHENEVER I NEED SOMETHING, WHICH 4065 03:14:13,101 --> 03:14:13,835 IS OFTEN. 4066 03:14:13,835 --> 03:14:15,704 I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES 4067 03:14:15,704 --> 03:14:18,340 I'VE ASKED HIM FOR PROBABLY THE 4068 03:14:18,340 --> 03:14:25,814 SAME AMYTROPHIC GENOME, WHICH HE 4069 03:14:25,814 --> 03:14:26,715 SENDS TO ME. 4070 03:14:26,715 --> 03:14:27,916 HE CAN FIND THINGS IN HIS 4071 03:14:27,916 --> 03:14:29,250 FREEZER AND SEND THEM TO ME, 4072 03:14:29,250 --> 03:14:30,452 WHICH IS FABULOUS. 4073 03:14:30,452 --> 03:14:32,120 WE'VE SENT HIM A FEW THINGS, 4074 03:14:32,120 --> 03:14:33,788 WHICH IS NOT AS MANY AS HE'S 4075 03:14:33,788 --> 03:14:34,723 SENT TO US. 4076 03:14:34,723 --> 03:14:36,257 BEYOND THAT PROFESSIONAL THING, 4077 03:14:36,257 --> 03:14:37,525 IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO SAY HE'S 4078 03:14:37,525 --> 03:14:39,661 BEEN IMPORTANT TO ME PERSONALLY 4079 03:14:39,661 --> 03:14:41,062 AS A GOOD FRIEND. 4080 03:14:41,062 --> 03:14:43,365 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DELIGHTED TO 4081 03:14:43,365 --> 03:14:46,101 BE ABLE TO MEET UP WITH HIM, 4082 03:14:46,101 --> 03:14:47,669 USUALLY AT COLD SPRING HARBOR, 4083 03:14:47,669 --> 03:14:50,138 AND DISCUSS EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR 4084 03:14:50,138 --> 03:14:52,407 CAREERS AND OUR THOUGHTS. 4085 03:14:52,407 --> 03:14:54,709 SO THANK YOU, ALAN. 4086 03:14:54,709 --> 03:14:56,511 LET ME TURN TO A QUICK LITTLE 4087 03:14:56,511 --> 03:14:57,712 BIT OF SCIENCE BECAUSE I THINK 4088 03:14:57,712 --> 03:14:59,114 IT'S A GOOD THING TO DO. 4089 03:14:59,114 --> 03:15:01,349 ONE OF THE PROJECTS GOING ON IN 4090 03:15:01,349 --> 03:15:05,687 THE LAB IS ABOUT SUMOYLATION, SO 4091 03:15:05,687 --> 03:15:07,722 I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT. 4092 03:15:07,722 --> 03:15:10,258 HOW DID I GET INTO THAT? 4093 03:15:10,258 --> 03:15:11,993 ACTUALLY, ONE OF THE WAYS I GOT 4094 03:15:11,993 --> 03:15:13,895 INTO THIS HAD TO DO WITH 4095 03:15:13,895 --> 03:15:16,264 JONATHAN A LITTLE BIT, WHICH WAS 4096 03:15:16,264 --> 03:15:17,866 IN CAPSID. 4097 03:15:17,866 --> 03:15:19,968 WE WERE LOOKING AT CAPSID 4098 03:15:19,968 --> 03:15:20,902 MUTANTS, AND ONE OF THE THINGS 4099 03:15:20,902 --> 03:15:22,404 WE WANTED TO KNOW IS WHAT ARE 4100 03:15:22,404 --> 03:15:24,939 SOME OF THE PROTEINS THAT 4101 03:15:24,939 --> 03:15:27,809 INTERACT WITH MLV CAPSID? 4102 03:15:27,809 --> 03:15:29,544 WE DID PROTEOMIC SCREENS AND GOT 4103 03:15:29,544 --> 03:15:30,745 A LOT OF HITS. 4104 03:15:30,745 --> 03:15:37,619 SOME OF THEM HAD TO DO WITH 4105 03:15:37,619 --> 03:15:38,453 UBIQUITINYLATION AND 4106 03:15:38,453 --> 03:15:39,320 SUMOYLATION. 4107 03:15:39,320 --> 03:15:40,054 WHICH IS ALL TRUE. 4108 03:15:40,054 --> 03:15:41,589 IT'S A BIG DEAL. 4109 03:15:41,589 --> 03:15:44,459 I THINK INCOMING CAPSIDES ARE 4110 03:15:44,459 --> 03:15:46,094 RECOGNIZED BY THE 4111 03:15:46,094 --> 03:15:48,229 UBIQUITINYLATION MACHINERY AND 4112 03:15:48,229 --> 03:15:54,235 SOMETIMES SUMOYLATED, BUT I 4113 03:15:54,235 --> 03:15:55,437 ALWAYS HAD THAT IN THE BACK OF 4114 03:15:55,437 --> 03:15:57,105 MY HEAD TO FOLLOW UP ON. 4115 03:15:57,105 --> 03:15:58,273 ACTUALLY WITH JONATHAN IN THAT 4116 03:15:58,273 --> 03:16:01,376 VEIN, WE DID A LOT OF TWO HYBRID 4117 03:16:01,376 --> 03:16:02,143 SCREENS. 4118 03:16:02,143 --> 03:16:05,480 WE DID CAPSID/CAPSID THAT 4119 03:16:05,480 --> 03:16:06,247 INTERACTS NICELY. 4120 03:16:06,247 --> 03:16:08,817 WE DID A LOT OF CAPSID SCREENS 4121 03:16:08,817 --> 03:16:11,653 THAT HAD TO DO WITH THESE GUYS 4122 03:16:11,653 --> 03:16:15,423 WITH THE UBIQUITINYLATION, AND 4123 03:16:15,423 --> 03:16:17,959 WE HAD FB-1, WHICH IS HORRIBLE 4124 03:16:17,959 --> 03:16:20,161 BIOCHEMICALLY, BUT IT TURNS OUT 4125 03:16:20,161 --> 03:16:22,430 TO BE WELL BEHAVED IN THE TWO 4126 03:16:22,430 --> 03:16:23,364 HYBRID SCREEN SYSTEM. 4127 03:16:23,364 --> 03:16:25,867 IT'S GIVEN US LOTS OF HITS. 4128 03:16:25,867 --> 03:16:28,770 IT DIMERIZED BEAUTIFULLY IN THAT 4129 03:16:28,770 --> 03:16:31,039 SYSTEM, WHICH WE USED THROUGH 4130 03:16:31,039 --> 03:16:33,241 MUTATIONS, AND IT INTERACTS WITH 4131 03:16:33,241 --> 03:16:41,483 THIS WHOLE UBUIQUITINE 4132 03:16:41,483 --> 03:16:41,983 MACHINERY. 4133 03:16:41,983 --> 03:16:44,352 IT TURNS OUT SOMEDAY, IF WE'RE 4134 03:16:44,352 --> 03:16:46,588 NOT CUT OFF FROM FUNDING, WE 4135 03:16:46,588 --> 03:16:47,989 SHOULD LOOK AT THIS MORE. 4136 03:16:47,989 --> 03:16:51,826 SO WE DECIDED TO LOOK AT SUMO 4137 03:16:51,826 --> 03:16:53,127 RECENTLY. 4138 03:16:53,127 --> 03:16:55,296 A NEW POST DOC LOOKED IT UP AND 4139 03:16:55,296 --> 03:16:58,700 SAID WE'RE GOING TO DO A NEW 4140 03:16:58,700 --> 03:17:00,635 PROTEOMIC SUMOYLATION WITH HIV. 4141 03:17:00,635 --> 03:17:03,304 IF YOU DON'T KNOW ALL ABOUT 4142 03:17:03,304 --> 03:17:09,143 SUMO, IT'S A UBIQUITIN LIKE 4143 03:17:09,143 --> 03:17:09,477 MODIFICATION. 4144 03:17:09,477 --> 03:17:14,015 IT CAN BE MONOSIMULATED OR 4145 03:17:14,015 --> 03:17:14,282 MULTIPLE. 4146 03:17:14,282 --> 03:17:16,684 THERE ARE FIVE SUMOs IN MAMMALS 4147 03:17:16,684 --> 03:17:17,252 AND PEOPLE. 4148 03:17:17,252 --> 03:17:20,221 THERE'S SUMO-1, WHICH IS 4149 03:17:20,221 --> 03:17:21,322 DISTINCT. 4150 03:17:21,322 --> 03:17:23,625 SUMO-2 AND 3, WHICH ARE ALMOST 4151 03:17:23,625 --> 03:17:24,392 IDENTICAL AND QUITE DIFFERENT 4152 03:17:24,392 --> 03:17:28,663 FROM SUMO-1, AND DIFFERENT GUYS. 4153 03:17:28,663 --> 03:17:31,399 THE WAY THEY'RE PUT ON PROTEINS 4154 03:17:31,399 --> 03:17:35,837 IS SIMILAR TO THE WAY UBIQUITIN 4155 03:17:35,837 --> 03:17:37,772 IS PUT ON PROTEINS. 4156 03:17:37,772 --> 03:17:41,042 THERE'S LIGASES, E1, 2, AND 3, 4157 03:17:41,042 --> 03:17:43,645 WHICH IS ALL IN PARALLEL TO WHAT 4158 03:17:43,645 --> 03:17:45,146 WE KNOW ABOUT UBIQUITIN. 4159 03:17:45,146 --> 03:17:47,615 THERE ARE MANY, MANY PROTEINS 4160 03:17:47,615 --> 03:17:51,519 THAT ARE SUMOYLATED. 4161 03:17:51,519 --> 03:17:54,322 WHEN ERR, THEY'RE NOT TAGGED AT 4162 03:17:54,322 --> 03:17:57,091 ALL THE WAY UBIQUITIN TAGS ARE. 4163 03:17:57,091 --> 03:18:01,162 THE MOST COMMON FEATURE THEY 4164 03:18:01,162 --> 03:18:03,464 INTERMEDIATE IS THE DELIVERY 4165 03:18:03,464 --> 03:18:05,233 INTO THE NUCLEUS, AND THEY HAVE 4166 03:18:05,233 --> 03:18:08,102 THESE SUMO-INTERACTION MOTIFS, 4167 03:18:08,102 --> 03:18:10,505 THESE SIMS, AND THEY DO A LOT OF 4168 03:18:10,505 --> 03:18:11,539 DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE CELL. 4169 03:18:11,539 --> 03:18:13,341 SO IT'S A BIG MODIFICATION. 4170 03:18:13,341 --> 03:18:14,909 THERE'S CERTAINLY A LOT OF 4171 03:18:14,909 --> 03:18:16,945 OPPORTUNITIES IN THE HIV 4172 03:18:16,945 --> 03:18:17,845 LIFECYCLE WHERE YOU COULD 4173 03:18:17,845 --> 03:18:19,714 IMAGINE SUMO BEING IMPORTANT. 4174 03:18:19,714 --> 03:18:22,650 IT'S BEEN LOOKED AT IN VERY FEW 4175 03:18:22,650 --> 03:18:23,284 CASES. 4176 03:18:23,284 --> 03:18:27,922 SO P6 IS SUMOYLATED, BUT IT 4177 03:18:27,922 --> 03:18:29,791 DOESN'T SEEM TO DO ANYTHING. 4178 03:18:29,791 --> 03:18:35,630 SUMO IS A BIG REGULATOR OF NFAT, 4179 03:18:35,630 --> 03:18:38,433 AND THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR 4180 03:18:38,433 --> 03:18:40,702 SUMO TO BE DOING OTHER STUFF. 4181 03:18:40,702 --> 03:18:41,970 SO IN THE LAB THEY DECIDED TO 4182 03:18:41,970 --> 03:18:44,439 LOOK AT IT IN A PROTEOMIC WAY. 4183 03:18:44,439 --> 03:18:46,708 THE PROBLEM WITH SUMO IN TERMS 4184 03:18:46,708 --> 03:18:48,376 OF A PROTEOMIC SCREEN IS THAT 4185 03:18:48,376 --> 03:18:52,981 THE USUAL WAY YOU LOOK AT 4186 03:18:52,981 --> 03:18:55,183 UBIQUITINYLATION IS YOU DO 4187 03:18:55,183 --> 03:18:57,418 REGULAR TRADITIONAL MASS SPEC, 4188 03:18:57,418 --> 03:19:00,388 AND THE BEAUTY OF UBIQUITIN IS 4189 03:19:00,388 --> 03:19:02,757 IT'S CLOSE TO THE C TERMINUS. 4190 03:19:02,757 --> 03:19:08,730 SO WHEN YOU MOVE YOUR LYSATE FOR 4191 03:19:08,730 --> 03:19:11,499 THE MASS SPEC, YOU LEAVE A 4192 03:19:11,499 --> 03:19:17,572 LITTLE GLUSIN AT THE SITE OF THE 4193 03:19:17,572 --> 03:19:19,807 ADDITION, AND YOU CAN SEE IT AS 4194 03:19:19,807 --> 03:19:22,210 A LITTLE BLIP IN THE PEPTIDE OF 4195 03:19:22,210 --> 03:19:22,910 THE PRODUCT. 4196 03:19:22,910 --> 03:19:24,579 THAT'S GREAT. 4197 03:19:24,579 --> 03:19:27,949 UNFORTUNATELY, SUMO 1 AND SUMO 2 4198 03:19:27,949 --> 03:19:30,551 HAVE THE FIRST CLEAVABLE SITE 4199 03:19:30,551 --> 03:19:32,520 NOWHERE NEAR THE C TERMINUS, AND 4200 03:19:32,520 --> 03:19:33,788 THE STUB THAT IS LEFT IS TOO BIG 4201 03:19:33,788 --> 03:19:35,289 TO ALLOW YOU TO IDENTIFY THE 4202 03:19:35,289 --> 03:19:36,658 TARGET PROTEIN THAT WAY. 4203 03:19:36,658 --> 03:19:38,092 SO THE ANSWER, WHICH WE DIDN'T 4204 03:19:38,092 --> 03:19:39,894 HAVE TO INVENT, IS THAT YOU 4205 03:19:39,894 --> 03:19:42,830 CHANGE, YOU MAKE A SUMO 4206 03:19:42,830 --> 03:19:45,199 MODIFIED, SUMO 1 OR SUMO 2 WITH 4207 03:19:45,199 --> 03:19:50,872 A TRIPSIN CLEAVABLE AMINO ACID 4208 03:19:50,872 --> 03:19:53,875 NEAR THE C TERMINUS, AND NOW THE 4209 03:19:53,875 --> 03:19:55,576 STUB IS SHORT ENOUGH TO SEE THIS 4210 03:19:55,576 --> 03:20:00,682 ON THE MASS SPEC PRODUCTS. 4211 03:20:00,682 --> 03:20:03,151 DMITRA MADE CELL LINES WITH 4212 03:20:03,151 --> 03:20:04,152 THESE VARIANTS. 4213 03:20:04,152 --> 03:20:07,422 THEY'RE EXPRESSED AT THE 4214 03:20:07,422 --> 03:20:08,990 ENDOGENOUS LEVELS, WHICH IS A 4215 03:20:08,990 --> 03:20:09,657 BIG DEAL. 4216 03:20:09,657 --> 03:20:12,226 YOU'RE NOT OVEREXPRESSING 4217 03:20:12,226 --> 03:20:14,262 ANYTHING. 4218 03:20:14,262 --> 03:20:15,863 THE MODIFIED SUMO BEHAVES WELL, 4219 03:20:15,863 --> 03:20:17,231 GOES EVERYWHERE IT SHOULD GO, 4220 03:20:17,231 --> 03:20:18,833 AND NOW YOU TAKE THOSE CELLS AND 4221 03:20:18,833 --> 03:20:20,368 ASK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU INFECT 4222 03:20:20,368 --> 03:20:20,935 WITH HIV. 4223 03:20:20,935 --> 03:20:23,604 SO SHE DID THAT, SHE TOOK -- AND 4224 03:20:23,604 --> 03:20:26,441 SHE MADE VERSIONS, I SHOULD SAY, 4225 03:20:26,441 --> 03:20:29,477 THAT ARE FLAG TAGGED OR HIS 4226 03:20:29,477 --> 03:20:30,645 TAGGED WHICH IS HELPFUL. 4227 03:20:30,645 --> 03:20:32,313 YOU HAVE THE CELL LINES READY TO 4228 03:20:32,313 --> 03:20:36,951 GO, INFECT THEM WITH HIV, MAKE 4229 03:20:36,951 --> 03:20:37,185 LYSATES. 4230 03:20:37,185 --> 03:20:38,553 YOU CAN PULL THE TAGS OUT, WHICH 4231 03:20:38,553 --> 03:20:40,254 HELPS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, AND 4232 03:20:40,254 --> 03:20:41,789 SEND THE WHOLE DAMN THING OFF TO 4233 03:20:41,789 --> 03:20:43,257 THE MASS SPEC PEOPLE AND THEY 4234 03:20:43,257 --> 03:20:45,460 COME BACK WITH A LIST OF 4235 03:20:45,460 --> 03:20:47,028 EVERYTHING THAT'S SUMOYLATED. 4236 03:20:47,028 --> 03:20:50,098 AND WE ASK THOSE, OKAY, WHAT'S 4237 03:20:50,098 --> 03:20:53,334 GONE UP WITH SUMOYLATION AND 4238 03:20:53,334 --> 03:20:54,168 MAYBE WHAT'S GONE DOWN. 4239 03:20:54,168 --> 03:20:55,703 THERE YOU GO. 4240 03:20:55,703 --> 03:20:57,338 YOU GET A HUGE HIT LIST, A BUNCH 4241 03:20:57,338 --> 03:20:58,873 OF THINGS ARE UP, AND SOME 4242 03:20:58,873 --> 03:20:59,674 THINGS ARE WAY UP. 4243 03:20:59,674 --> 03:21:02,310 IT'S REALLY SOME OF THEM ARE 4244 03:21:02,310 --> 03:21:05,079 VERY STRIKINGLY INCREASED IN THE 4245 03:21:05,079 --> 03:21:06,314 SUMOYLATION UPON INFECTION. 4246 03:21:06,314 --> 03:21:07,982 A SMALLER NUMBER ARE DOWN, AND I 4247 03:21:07,982 --> 03:21:09,317 THINK THERE'S A TON OF STUFF 4248 03:21:09,317 --> 03:21:11,919 HERE FOR US TO WORK ON FOR A 4249 03:21:11,919 --> 03:21:13,121 LONG TIME, BUT THEY'RE 4250 03:21:13,121 --> 03:21:13,421 INTERESTING. 4251 03:21:13,421 --> 03:21:16,457 THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP BETWEEN 4252 03:21:16,457 --> 03:21:18,826 SUMO 1 AND SUMO 2, BY THE WAY. 4253 03:21:18,826 --> 03:21:21,562 A LOT OF PROTEINS ARE SUMOYLATED 4254 03:21:21,562 --> 03:21:22,430 BY EITHER ONE. 4255 03:21:22,430 --> 03:21:24,265 THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE 4256 03:21:24,265 --> 03:21:25,166 SIGNIFICANTLY ONLY SUMOYLATED BY 4257 03:21:25,166 --> 03:21:27,635 ONLY SUMO 1 OR ONLY SUMO 2. 4258 03:21:27,635 --> 03:21:29,070 LOTS OF THESE ARE INTERESTING. 4259 03:21:29,070 --> 03:21:30,104 NOW WHAT DO YOU DO? 4260 03:21:30,104 --> 03:21:31,038 YOU'VE GOT THIS LIST. 4261 03:21:31,038 --> 03:21:32,640 WELL, YOU LOOK AT THE LIST AND 4262 03:21:32,640 --> 03:21:34,876 SAY, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE? 4263 03:21:34,876 --> 03:21:37,512 WHAT HAS COME, AND WHAT MIGHT BE 4264 03:21:37,512 --> 03:21:38,679 INTERESTING TO LOOK AT? 4265 03:21:38,679 --> 03:21:41,149 YOU ARE ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT 4266 03:21:41,149 --> 03:21:47,355 THAT YOU SEND THESE SAMPLES TO 4267 03:21:47,355 --> 03:21:49,857 MULTIPLE MASS SPEC FOR YOU, AND 4268 03:21:49,857 --> 03:21:51,259 THEY COME UP WITH THE SAME THING 4269 03:21:51,259 --> 03:21:52,426 MOST OF THE TIME OR SOME OF THE 4270 03:21:52,426 --> 03:21:53,661 TIME, AND THAT'S GOOD. 4271 03:21:53,661 --> 03:21:55,029 WE DID THAT. 4272 03:21:55,029 --> 03:21:57,298 SO WHAT DO WE GOT? 4273 03:21:57,298 --> 03:21:57,899 THERE WERE SOME INTERESTING 4274 03:21:57,899 --> 03:22:00,368 THEMES THAT CAME UP IN THIS 4275 03:22:00,368 --> 03:22:04,972 SCR 4276 03:22:04,972 --> 03:22:07,108 SCREEN, AND THE MOST STRIKING IS 4277 03:22:07,108 --> 03:22:17,018 THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF HNRNPs. 4278 03:22:17,018 --> 03:22:19,654 HNRNP 1 AND 3, I'M GOING TO TALK 4279 03:22:19,654 --> 03:22:19,854 ABOUT. 4280 03:22:19,854 --> 03:22:21,656 THEY COME UP WITH SUMO 1 AND 4281 03:22:21,656 --> 03:22:22,156 SUMO 2. 4282 03:22:22,156 --> 03:22:23,324 THESE ARE A LOT. 4283 03:22:23,324 --> 03:22:25,526 THESE ARE TWO LOGS AND MORE UP 4284 03:22:25,526 --> 03:22:30,598 IN INFECTED CELLS, SO HUH, DON'T 4285 03:22:30,598 --> 03:22:31,265 KNOW. 4286 03:22:31,265 --> 03:22:32,733 THERE ARE OTHER INTERESTING 4287 03:22:32,733 --> 03:22:33,434 THINGS. 4288 03:22:33,434 --> 03:22:39,273 THERE'S A LOT OF NUPs, NUCLEAR 4289 03:22:39,273 --> 03:22:41,809 CORE PROTEINS, WHICH MAY BE 4290 03:22:41,809 --> 03:22:42,176 INTERESTING. 4291 03:22:42,176 --> 03:22:43,644 BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE GUYS. 4292 03:22:43,644 --> 03:22:45,813 EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK KIND OF IN 4293 03:22:45,813 --> 03:22:47,114 THE GO CATEGORIZATION OF WHAT 4294 03:22:47,114 --> 03:22:50,251 THINGS ARE INCREASED, YOU REALLY 4295 03:22:50,251 --> 03:22:53,955 GET A LOT OF RNA HANDLING GUYS, 4296 03:22:53,955 --> 03:22:58,092 RNA SPLICING GUYS LIKE THE RNPs, 4297 03:22:58,092 --> 03:23:00,027 A LOT OF RNA PROCESSING GUYS, A 4298 03:23:00,027 --> 03:23:01,529 LOT OF GENES FLAGGED HAVING TO 4299 03:23:01,529 --> 03:23:03,531 DO WITH THE METABOLISM OF RNA. 4300 03:23:03,531 --> 03:23:05,466 I SERIOUSLY BELIEVE IN INFECTION 4301 03:23:05,466 --> 03:23:07,468 THE VIRUS IS SCREWING AROUND IN 4302 03:23:07,468 --> 03:23:08,936 VARIOUS WAYS WITH THIS RNA 4303 03:23:08,936 --> 03:23:09,203 MACHINERY. 4304 03:23:09,203 --> 03:23:11,539 SO THESE ARE THE DOTS FOR THOSE 4305 03:23:11,539 --> 03:23:18,646 TWO GENES, THOSE PARTICULAR GUYS 4306 03:23:18,646 --> 03:23:25,686 THIS IS THE AVERAGE OF 4307 03:23:25,686 --> 03:23:27,521 TRIPLICATES BY THE MASS SPEC 4308 03:23:27,521 --> 03:23:27,722 GUYS. 4309 03:23:27,722 --> 03:23:29,323 NOW WE CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT 4310 03:23:29,323 --> 03:23:31,292 ACTUAL PROTEIN WORKUPS, WHICH IS 4311 03:23:31,292 --> 03:23:31,525 TRUE. 4312 03:23:31,525 --> 03:23:34,762 IF YOU LOOK AT UNINFECTED AND 4313 03:23:34,762 --> 03:23:36,597 INFECTED FOR SUMO 1 FOR CONTROL, 4314 03:23:36,597 --> 03:23:37,698 YOU HAVE YOUR CONTROLS, AND WHAT 4315 03:23:37,698 --> 03:23:41,669 YOU SEE IS THE PROTEIN IS HUGELY 4316 03:23:41,669 --> 03:23:43,170 SUMOYLATED AFTER INFECTION. 4317 03:23:43,170 --> 03:23:46,274 THAT UPPER BAND WITH THE ARROW 4318 03:23:46,274 --> 03:23:47,942 IS MONOSUMOYLATED. 4319 03:23:47,942 --> 03:23:49,076 THE UNSUMOYLATED DOESN'T CHANGE. 4320 03:23:49,076 --> 03:23:51,045 THE PROTEIN LEVEL IS NOT 4321 03:23:51,045 --> 03:23:51,712 AFFECTED. 4322 03:23:51,712 --> 03:23:54,215 WE HAVE THESE ADDED BANDS, 4323 03:23:54,215 --> 03:24:00,321 PROBABLY THOSE ARE DI AND 4324 03:24:00,321 --> 03:24:02,189 TRI-SUMOYLATED VERSIONS, PRETTY 4325 03:24:02,189 --> 03:24:02,590 DRAMATIC. 4326 03:24:02,590 --> 03:24:04,926 JUST TO REMIND YOU WHAT'S 4327 03:24:04,926 --> 03:24:06,060 POSSIBLE, WHICH DON'T KNOW WHICH 4328 03:24:06,060 --> 03:24:07,895 IS HAPPENING, AND WE DON'T KNOW 4329 03:24:07,895 --> 03:24:09,430 ALL THE PLACES WHERE THOSE 4330 03:24:09,430 --> 03:24:09,997 MODIFICATIONS ARE PROBABLY 4331 03:24:09,997 --> 03:24:19,006 HAPPENING. 4332 03:24:19,006 --> 03:24:21,142 THEN IF YOU EXPOSE IT MORE, YOU 4333 03:24:21,142 --> 03:24:23,878 CAN MAKE IT LOOK EVEN MORE 4334 03:24:23,878 --> 03:24:24,178 BETTER. 4335 03:24:24,178 --> 03:24:25,546 YOU CAN MAKE THE FACTORS LOOK 4336 03:24:25,546 --> 03:24:26,714 THE WAY YOU WANT THEM. 4337 03:24:26,714 --> 03:24:29,283 FOR SUMO 1, IT'S TRUE. 4338 03:24:29,283 --> 03:24:33,888 FOR HNRNPA3. 4339 03:24:33,888 --> 03:24:36,891 THERE'S A BIG BASAL LEVEL 4340 03:24:36,891 --> 03:24:38,025 SUMOYLATION, BUT THEN THEN 4341 03:24:38,025 --> 03:24:39,994 THERE'S A BIG INCREASE AFTER 4342 03:24:39,994 --> 03:24:40,261 INFECTION. 4343 03:24:40,261 --> 03:24:44,498 YOU CAN SEE THAT OVER THERE. 4344 03:24:44,498 --> 03:24:46,667 AND WE KNOW WE CAN SHOW THAT AT 4345 03:24:46,667 --> 03:24:50,471 LEAST THESE BANDS ARE SUMO 4346 03:24:50,471 --> 03:24:52,206 ADDITION BECAUSE THERE'S A 4347 03:24:52,206 --> 03:24:55,476 DYNAMITE SUMO INHIBITOR. 4348 03:24:55,476 --> 03:24:57,244 TACK THE DRUG AND THROW IT ON, 4349 03:24:57,244 --> 03:24:58,679 AND IT TOTALLY BLOCKS THAT 4350 03:24:58,679 --> 03:25:00,748 CHANGE AFTER INFECTION. 4351 03:25:00,748 --> 03:25:03,517 IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS IS 4352 03:25:03,517 --> 03:25:04,885 SUMOYLATION. 4353 03:25:04,885 --> 03:25:05,853 SO THAT WAS INTERESTING. 4354 03:25:05,853 --> 03:25:07,922 YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW REALLY A 4355 03:25:07,922 --> 03:25:08,789 WHOLE LOT MORE YET. 4356 03:25:08,789 --> 03:25:10,925 WHAT WE KNOW IS THE TIMING. 4357 03:25:10,925 --> 03:25:12,026 IT'S JUST KIND OF INTERESTING. 4358 03:25:12,026 --> 03:25:13,761 IT'S NOT EARLY IN INFECTION. 4359 03:25:13,761 --> 03:25:15,096 IT'S QUITE LATE. 4360 03:25:15,096 --> 03:25:17,164 SO HERE WE'VE LOOKED AT 4361 03:25:17,164 --> 03:25:18,132 DIFFERENT TIMES AFTER 4362 03:25:18,132 --> 03:25:22,069 INFECTION -- 6, 12, 24, 48 -- 4363 03:25:22,069 --> 03:25:24,138 AND IT REALLY KICKS IN ONLY 4364 03:25:24,138 --> 03:25:26,540 AROUND 24 HOURS AFTER INFECTION. 4365 03:25:26,540 --> 03:25:28,175 SO IT'S PROBABLY REQUIRING A 4366 03:25:28,175 --> 03:25:28,676 VIRAL INTEGRATION AND 4367 03:25:28,676 --> 03:25:33,180 EXPRESSION. 4368 03:25:33,180 --> 03:25:35,683 SO SOME LATE PROTEIN, SOME 4369 03:25:35,683 --> 03:25:36,484 ASPECT RELATIVELY LATE IN 4370 03:25:36,484 --> 03:25:39,487 INFECTION IS INDUCING THIS BIG 4371 03:25:39,487 --> 03:25:41,956 MODIFICATION OF THE HNRNPs, AND 4372 03:25:41,956 --> 03:25:44,492 THAT'S TRUE OF BOTH OF THOSE TWO 4373 03:25:44,492 --> 03:25:52,633 PARTICULAR PROTEINS. 4374 03:25:52,633 --> 03:25:54,969 IT'S NOT ONLY HELA CELLS WHERE 4375 03:25:54,969 --> 03:25:57,505 WE'VE DONE THE MOST, BUT IT'S 4376 03:25:57,505 --> 03:26:00,508 TRUE IN CELLS, AND IT SEEMS TO 4377 03:26:00,508 --> 03:26:02,276 BE QUITE GENERAL. 4378 03:26:02,276 --> 03:26:05,046 WE'LL BE ASKED IN PRIMARY 4379 03:26:05,046 --> 03:26:06,514 T-CELLS ANY DAY NOW, BUT WE 4380 03:26:06,514 --> 03:26:08,349 HAVEN'T DONE THAT, BUT I BET IT 4381 03:26:08,349 --> 03:26:09,517 WILL BE TRUE BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO 4382 03:26:09,517 --> 03:26:10,484 BE TRUE FOR BOTH. 4383 03:26:10,484 --> 03:26:13,287 WHAT ARE THESE PROTEINS DOING? 4384 03:26:13,287 --> 03:26:15,923 THEY'RE KNOWN TO BE HELPFUL IN 4385 03:26:15,923 --> 03:26:17,324 SPLICING, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'LL 4386 03:26:17,324 --> 03:26:17,525 GO. 4387 03:26:17,525 --> 03:26:18,926 WE'VE DONE A LITTLE WORK ON 4388 03:26:18,926 --> 03:26:21,829 THAT, SO YOU ALL KNOW IT'S 4389 03:26:21,829 --> 03:26:22,129 COMPLICATED. 4390 03:26:22,129 --> 03:26:24,832 THERE'S TWO DONORS, ALL THESE 4391 03:26:24,832 --> 03:26:27,068 SPLICE ACCEPTORS, AND THE RESULT 4392 03:26:27,068 --> 03:26:29,336 IS A MESS OF SPLICING. 4393 03:26:29,336 --> 03:26:31,005 THERE'S ALWAYS OFTEN THIS FIRST 4394 03:26:31,005 --> 03:26:33,340 DONOR TO A BUNCH OF ACCEPTORS, 4395 03:26:33,340 --> 03:26:34,975 AND THEN THERE'S THIS SET OTHER 4396 03:26:34,975 --> 03:26:37,344 DONOR THAT CAN BE USED OR NOT TO 4397 03:26:37,344 --> 03:26:39,213 ITS ACCEPTOR, AND THERE'S 4398 03:26:39,213 --> 03:26:41,415 ALTERNATE ACCEPTORS OVER THERE 4399 03:26:41,415 --> 03:26:43,751 THAT MAKE MORE ALTERNATE 4400 03:26:43,751 --> 03:26:46,554 PROTE 4401 03:26:46,554 --> 03:26:46,821 PROTEINS. 4402 03:26:46,821 --> 03:26:49,156 SO WHEN YOU ADD UP ALL THESE 4403 03:26:49,156 --> 03:26:51,258 COMBOS, THERE'S AT LEAST 50 OR 4404 03:26:51,258 --> 03:26:53,461 MORE SPLICE VARIANT MRNAs THAT 4405 03:26:53,461 --> 03:26:56,163 ARE FORMED ON THE VIRUS. 4406 03:26:56,163 --> 03:26:58,499 THE RATIO OF ALL OF THEM ARE 4407 03:26:58,499 --> 03:27:00,534 PRETTY STEREOTYPICAL ACTUALLY, 4408 03:27:00,534 --> 03:27:02,203 BUT I'M SURE UNDER COMPLICATED 4409 03:27:02,203 --> 03:27:03,671 CONTROL, AND I DON'T THINK WE 4410 03:27:03,671 --> 03:27:04,772 REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT. 4411 03:27:04,772 --> 03:27:06,407 A LITTLE IS BEING KNOWN ABOUT 4412 03:27:06,407 --> 03:27:08,843 THE SITES OF THE ACCEPTORS AND 4413 03:27:08,843 --> 03:27:10,478 THERE ARE NOW A FAIR NUMBER OF 4414 03:27:10,478 --> 03:27:12,246 MUTANTS THAT FOOL AROUND WITH 4415 03:27:12,246 --> 03:27:14,248 THE ACCEPTOR USE. 4416 03:27:14,248 --> 03:27:18,285 I THINK OF THE -- A LOT OF THAT 4417 03:27:18,285 --> 03:27:21,088 WORK BEING DONE BY ANN EMERY 4418 03:27:21,088 --> 03:27:27,561 DOWN THERE AND RON SWANSTROM'S 4419 03:27:27,561 --> 03:27:27,761 LAB. 4420 03:27:27,761 --> 03:27:30,064 WE HOOKED UP WITH HER AND 4421 03:27:30,064 --> 03:27:31,665 KNOCKED DOWN OUR TWO FAVORITE 4422 03:27:31,665 --> 03:27:33,968 SUMOYLATED PROTEINS, AND THAT'S 4423 03:27:33,968 --> 03:27:34,468 WHAT HAPPENS. 4424 03:27:34,468 --> 03:27:36,570 SHE DOES THE ANALYSIS BY DEEP 4425 03:27:36,570 --> 03:27:37,705 SEQUENCING WITH RANDOM PRIMERS 4426 03:27:37,705 --> 03:27:40,641 UP ON TOP, AND SHE DOES IT WITH 4427 03:27:40,641 --> 03:27:42,276 SPECIFIC PRIMERS THAT READ OUT 4428 03:27:42,276 --> 03:27:43,811 INDIVIDUAL SPLICE SITES. 4429 03:27:43,811 --> 03:27:45,613 I WON'T WALK THROUGH IT EXCEPT 4430 03:27:45,613 --> 03:27:47,548 TO SAY THERE ARE PRETTY BIG 4431 03:27:47,548 --> 03:27:49,950 EFFECTS, SO WHEN YOU KNOCK DOWN 4432 03:27:49,950 --> 03:27:52,453 SOME OF THE HNRNPs, JUST LIKE 4433 03:27:52,453 --> 03:27:55,089 OUR FAVORITE GUYS, WE SEE THESE 4434 03:27:55,089 --> 03:27:58,959 OFTEN BIG INCREASES IN SPLICE 4435 03:27:58,959 --> 03:28:01,295 USAGE OF SOME OF THE PARTICULAR 4436 03:28:01,295 --> 03:28:02,463 SPLICE, PARTIALLY SPLICED SITES 4437 03:28:02,463 --> 03:28:07,735 UP ON THAT TOP RIGHT. 4438 03:28:07,735 --> 03:28:10,304 AND BIG CHANGES IN PARTICULAR 4439 03:28:10,304 --> 03:28:13,641 SPLICES, USES OF ACCEPTOR 2, 4440 03:28:13,641 --> 03:28:15,242 ACCEPTOR 3 WHEN YOU KNOCK THOSE 4441 03:28:15,242 --> 03:28:15,476 DOWN. 4442 03:28:15,476 --> 03:28:16,977 THE FUTURE IS CLEAR OF WHAT WE 4443 03:28:16,977 --> 03:28:19,780 WILL BE WANTING TO DO, WHICH IS 4444 03:28:19,780 --> 03:28:24,385 TRY TO UNDERSTAND IF SUMOYLATION 4445 03:28:24,385 --> 03:28:27,488 IS A DEAL IN THIS, AND IF THAT'S 4446 03:28:27,488 --> 03:28:29,156 PART OF WHAT THE VIRUS IS DOING 4447 03:28:29,156 --> 03:28:30,624 TO CONTROL ITS OWN SPLICING. 4448 03:28:30,624 --> 03:28:33,961 WE'RE GOING TO ASK DOES THE 4449 03:28:33,961 --> 03:28:35,362 HIV-INDUCED SUMOYLATION WHICH WE 4450 03:28:35,362 --> 03:28:37,798 KNOW IS HAPPENING REALLY 4451 03:28:37,798 --> 03:28:39,633 REGULATING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF 4452 03:28:39,633 --> 03:28:41,435 THESE GUYS OR IS IT JUST 4453 03:28:41,435 --> 03:28:41,735 HAPPENING? 4454 03:28:41,735 --> 03:28:44,338 AND WE'LL FIND OUT BECAUSE WE'RE 4455 03:28:44,338 --> 03:28:52,913 GOING TO MAKE NON-SUMOYLATEDABLE 4456 03:28:52,913 --> 03:28:54,582 MUTANTS OF THE PROTEINS AND SEE 4457 03:28:54,582 --> 03:28:55,749 WHAT'S ADDED. 4458 03:28:55,749 --> 03:28:58,052 BUT SPLICING AND VIRUS 4459 03:28:58,052 --> 03:28:58,385 REPLICATION. 4460 03:28:58,385 --> 03:29:00,287 I'LL STOP THERE AND THANK ALAN 4461 03:29:00,287 --> 03:29:00,521 AGAIN. 4462 03:29:00,521 --> 03:29:02,856 HERE'S THE CURRENT GANG. 4463 03:29:02,856 --> 03:29:08,896 I THINK THERE ARE SO MANY 4464 03:29:08,896 --> 03:29:09,763 AVENUES OF RESEARCH WE HAVE YET 4465 03:29:09,763 --> 03:29:11,298 TO RUN WITH, SO MANY OF WHICH 4466 03:29:11,298 --> 03:29:15,302 ARE STARTED BY ALAN. 4467 03:29:15,302 --> 03:29:17,705 WE'LL KEEP RUNNING AS LONG AS WE 4468 03:29:17,705 --> 03:29:17,871 CAN. 4469 03:29:17,871 --> 03:29:18,105 THANKS. 4470 03:29:18,105 --> 03:29:28,382 I'LL STOP THERE. 4471 03:29:35,055 --> 03:29:37,057 >> I'M SURE YOU'RE IN THE 4472 03:29:37,057 --> 03:29:39,593 PRESENCE OF FINDING OUT WHICH OF 4473 03:29:39,593 --> 03:29:41,161 THESE RETROVIRAL PROTEINS 4474 03:29:41,161 --> 03:29:41,996 CONTRIBUTE TO THIS? 4475 03:29:41,996 --> 03:29:42,997 >> I DON'T. 4476 03:29:42,997 --> 03:29:46,267 THE CHEAP WAY, WE'RE GOING TO 4477 03:29:46,267 --> 03:29:48,168 OVEREXPRESS EACH ONE FIRST 4478 03:29:48,168 --> 03:29:49,737 ALONE, NO VIRUS OTHERWISE, AND 4479 03:29:49,737 --> 03:29:51,505 WE'LL SEE IF THAT'S IT. 4480 03:29:51,505 --> 03:29:52,973 AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE VIRUS 4481 03:29:52,973 --> 03:29:55,509 RESTRAINTS THAT LACK, YOU NAME 4482 03:29:55,509 --> 03:29:58,646 IT, BPU, BPR, WHATEVER, WE'LL 4483 03:29:58,646 --> 03:29:59,179 FIND OUT. 4484 03:29:59,179 --> 03:30:02,216 >> IT'S A BLUNT TOOL, IF YOU 4485 03:30:02,216 --> 03:30:05,152 LOOKED AT WHAT THE SUMOYLATION 4486 03:30:05,152 --> 03:30:09,590 INHIBITORS DO TO HIV-1? 4487 03:30:09,590 --> 03:30:11,792 >> YES, AND THE ANSWER IS 4488 03:30:11,792 --> 03:30:12,092 COMPLICATED. 4489 03:30:12,092 --> 03:30:13,627 THOSE DRUGS ARE FABULOUSLY 4490 03:30:13,627 --> 03:30:15,829 POTENT, AND THEY ARE TOTALLY 4491 03:30:15,829 --> 03:30:20,401 BLOCKING THE VIRUS, BUT THEY'RE 4492 03:30:20,401 --> 03:30:21,802 PROBABLY DOING MORE THAN ONE 4493 03:30:21,802 --> 03:30:22,002 THING. 4494 03:30:22,002 --> 03:30:24,805 THEY DO, AS I SHOWED YOU, BLOCK 4495 03:30:24,805 --> 03:30:26,340 THE SUMOYLATION OF THESE 4496 03:30:26,340 --> 03:30:29,610 FACTORS, YES, LATE IN INFECTION, 4497 03:30:29,610 --> 03:30:31,178 BUT THEIR BIG BLOCK, IS IT 4498 03:30:31,178 --> 03:30:31,679 SOMETHING ELSE? 4499 03:30:31,679 --> 03:30:36,283 IT'S SUPER EARLY, AND IN FACT, 4500 03:30:36,283 --> 03:30:37,685 THEIR MOST POTENT FUNCTION 4501 03:30:37,685 --> 03:30:39,019 REQUIRES THE PRETREATMENT OF THE 4502 03:30:39,019 --> 03:30:40,487 CELLS FOR LIKE 12 HOURS BEFORE 4503 03:30:40,487 --> 03:30:42,656 YOU INFECT THEM. 4504 03:30:42,656 --> 03:30:47,461 AND IF YOU DO THAT BEFORE AN 4505 03:30:47,461 --> 03:30:48,662 INFECTION IS THREE LOGS DOWN, 4506 03:30:48,662 --> 03:30:50,531 WHOPPING, BUT I GUESS IT'S NOT 4507 03:30:50,531 --> 03:30:51,031 THOSE PROTEINS. 4508 03:30:51,031 --> 03:30:53,100 >> AND THE CELLS ARE FINE? 4509 03:30:53,100 --> 03:30:56,203 >> THEY DON'T LOVE IT, BUT 4510 03:30:56,203 --> 03:30:58,906 THEY'RE OKAY FOR -- THEY'RE NOT 4511 03:30:58,906 --> 03:30:59,239 DEAD. 4512 03:30:59,239 --> 03:31:01,308 THEY'RE OKAY FOR A FEW DAYS, AND 4513 03:31:01,308 --> 03:31:03,577 THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE DEAD 4514 03:31:03,577 --> 03:31:04,411 YET. 4515 03:31:04,411 --> 03:31:05,679 (LAUGHTER) 4516 03:31:05,679 --> 03:31:07,848 AND THE INFECTION, THE VIRUS IS 4517 03:31:07,848 --> 03:31:11,018 STILL ABLE TO DO THINGS IN THOSE 4518 03:31:11,018 --> 03:31:16,990 CELLS, YEAH. 4519 03:31:16,990 --> 03:31:20,427 >> SO IN TERMS OF THE 4520 03:31:20,427 --> 03:31:23,097 SUPPRESSING BY INTERACTING WITH 4521 03:31:23,097 --> 03:31:28,369 THE SERUM, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER 4522 03:31:28,369 --> 03:31:37,678 YOU DEMONSTRATE THIS FACT? 4523 03:31:37,678 --> 03:31:40,681 >> YES, THAT'S THE $64,000 4524 03:31:40,681 --> 03:31:40,948 QUESTION. 4525 03:31:40,948 --> 03:31:42,249 EVERYBODY WOULD AGREE THEY'RE 4526 03:31:42,249 --> 03:31:43,617 IMPORTANT IN THAT PROCESS 4527 03:31:43,617 --> 03:31:45,719 SOMEHOW, AS REGULATORS OF 4528 03:31:45,719 --> 03:31:46,620 SPLICING, AND WHETHER THE 4529 03:31:46,620 --> 03:31:47,788 SUMOYLATION OF THEM IS GOOD OR 4530 03:31:47,788 --> 03:31:49,857 BAD FOR THAT, WE DON'T KNOW. 4531 03:31:49,857 --> 03:31:52,126 THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO FIND OUT. 4532 03:31:52,126 --> 03:32:00,701 I HOPE I'LL TELL YOU SOON. 4533 03:32:00,701 --> 03:32:06,607 >> ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SEEM 4534 03:32:06,607 --> 03:32:09,676 TO BE UPREGULATED FOR 4535 03:32:09,676 --> 03:32:11,912 SUMOYLATION IS WHAT'S SITTING ON 4536 03:32:11,912 --> 03:32:13,680 THE EXIT TUNNEL. 4537 03:32:13,680 --> 03:32:15,516 HAVE YOU LOOKED TO SEE ABOUT 4538 03:32:15,516 --> 03:32:15,849 TRANSLATIONAL? 4539 03:32:15,849 --> 03:32:16,550 >> WE HAVEN'T. 4540 03:32:16,550 --> 03:32:17,484 AND ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS 4541 03:32:17,484 --> 03:32:19,019 ABOUT PUTTING UP A SLIDE WITH 4542 03:32:19,019 --> 03:32:20,954 ALL THE HIT LIST, PEOPLE ALWAYS 4543 03:32:20,954 --> 03:32:24,057 GO, OH, MY PROTEIN IS THERE. 4544 03:32:24,057 --> 03:32:27,027 AND THEN YOU GO, GREAT, CAN WE 4545 03:32:27,027 --> 03:32:30,798 WORK ON THAT TOGETHER? 4546 03:32:30,798 --> 03:32:40,107 SO HERE WE ARE. 4547 03:32:40,107 --> 03:32:41,608 >> (NO MICROPHONE). 4548 03:32:41,608 --> 03:32:43,977 >> IT'S UBC-9, I THINK. 4549 03:32:43,977 --> 03:32:44,845 I CAN'T REMEMBER. 4550 03:32:44,845 --> 03:32:49,817 THEY'RE KNOWN, THE SUMO E1, E2, 4551 03:32:49,817 --> 03:32:51,418 E3 ARE KNOWN FOR SUMOS. 4552 03:32:51,418 --> 03:32:52,820 I DON'T REMEMBER FOR SURE, 4553 03:32:52,820 --> 03:32:53,053 THOUGH. 4554 03:32:53,053 --> 03:32:58,192 I'D HAVE TO THINK. 4555 03:32:58,192 --> 03:33:00,427 AND THE DRUGS ARE KNOWN WHAT 4556 03:33:00,427 --> 03:33:02,129 THEY DO IN THAT CASCADE. 4557 03:33:02,129 --> 03:33:03,197 I THINK THEY DO IT EARLY IN THE 4558 03:33:03,197 --> 03:33:13,240 CASCADE. 4559 03:33:13,240 --> 03:33:13,907 >> YOU'RE IN THE CENTER OF THAT 4560 03:33:13,907 --> 03:33:18,579 PICTURE TOO. 4561 03:33:18,579 --> 03:33:20,414 >> THESE ARE USUALLY TAKEN AT 4562 03:33:20,414 --> 03:33:20,681 BIRTHDAYS. 4563 03:33:20,681 --> 03:33:30,924 I DON'T KNOW. 4564 03:33:46,139 --> 03:33:47,608 >> THANK YOU, RECEIVE, FOR A 4565 03:33:47,608 --> 03:33:48,375 WONDERFUL TALK. 4566 03:33:48,375 --> 03:33:53,814 OUR NEXT SPEAKER NEEDS NO 4567 03:33:53,814 --> 03:33:54,348 INTRODUCTION. 4568 03:33:54,348 --> 03:33:56,450 STEVE HUGHES HAS BEEN HERE IN 4569 03:33:56,450 --> 03:33:59,620 FREDERICK ALMOST AS LONG AS I 4570 03:33:59,620 --> 03:34:01,588 HAVE, AND LIKE ME, HE'S BEEN 4571 03:34:01,588 --> 03:34:05,726 STUDYING RETROVIRUSES ALL THESE 4572 03:34:05,726 --> 03:34:07,661 YEARS, AND I THINK AS TIME HAS 4573 03:34:07,661 --> 03:34:10,297 GONE ON, WE'VE BECOME BETTER AND 4574 03:34:10,297 --> 03:34:13,834 BETTER FRIENDS. 4575 03:34:13,834 --> 03:34:14,801 I THINK I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. 4576 03:34:14,801 --> 03:34:24,912 STEVE? 4577 03:34:25,145 --> 03:34:26,813 >> I WAS TRYING TO THINK BACK 4578 03:34:26,813 --> 03:34:28,682 ABOUT WHEN I FIRST MET ALAN, AND 4579 03:34:28,682 --> 03:34:30,284 IT'S GOT TO HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 4580 03:34:30,284 --> 03:34:32,352 FOUR DECADES AGO, AND IT MAY 4581 03:34:32,352 --> 03:34:34,354 WELL HAVE BEEN IN COLD SPRING 4582 03:34:34,354 --> 03:34:35,822 HARBOR, BUT I CERTAINLY MET HIM 4583 03:34:35,822 --> 03:34:38,091 WHEN I CAME TO FREDERICK AND 4584 03:34:38,091 --> 03:34:40,827 BEGAN TO REALLY BENEFIT FROM 4585 03:34:40,827 --> 03:34:41,595 HAVING HIM AS A FRIEND AND A 4586 03:34:41,595 --> 03:34:47,000 COLLEAGUE. 4587 03:34:47,000 --> 03:34:48,602 I'M GOING TO TELL A FEW STORIES 4588 03:34:48,602 --> 03:34:52,172 OF ALAN'S, AND I HOPE TO DO 4589 03:34:52,172 --> 03:34:54,174 REASONABLE JUSTICE TO THEM, THAT 4590 03:34:54,174 --> 03:34:55,242 I PARTICULARLY LIKE. 4591 03:34:55,242 --> 03:34:58,278 EACH ONE OF THOSE HAS TAUGHT ME 4592 03:34:58,278 --> 03:34:58,545 SOMETHING. 4593 03:34:58,545 --> 03:35:01,915 I'VE TAKEN AWAY A GREAT DEAL OF 4594 03:35:01,915 --> 03:35:02,716 POSITIVE FROM MY LONG 4595 03:35:02,716 --> 03:35:06,119 ASSOCIATION WITH ALAN. 4596 03:35:06,119 --> 03:35:07,154 ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS OF 4597 03:35:07,154 --> 03:35:09,923 COURSE IS THAT THE IDEA OF 4598 03:35:09,923 --> 03:35:12,059 ASSEMBLY, PUTTING THE VIRUS 4599 03:35:12,059 --> 03:35:13,193 TOGETHER, ISN'T THE SAME 4600 03:35:13,193 --> 03:35:14,695 NECESSARILY AS HAVING THE VIRUS 4601 03:35:14,695 --> 03:35:16,363 READY TO BE INFECTIOUS. 4602 03:35:16,363 --> 03:35:18,865 YOU SOMEHOW HAVE TO CONVERT THE 4603 03:35:18,865 --> 03:35:20,100 PROBLEM FROM PUTTING THINGS 4604 03:35:20,100 --> 03:35:22,936 TOGETHER INTO BEING ABLE TO 4605 03:35:22,936 --> 03:35:26,006 SOMETIMES TAKE THEM APART AGAIN. 4606 03:35:26,006 --> 03:35:28,175 FOR RETROVIRUSES AND OTHER 4607 03:35:28,175 --> 03:35:30,644 VIRUSES AS WELL, THE PROPERLY 4608 03:35:30,644 --> 03:35:37,951 ASSEMBLED POLYPROTEIN PRECU 4609 03:35:37,951 --> 03:35:41,989 PRECURSORS, THE IMMATURE VIRION 4610 03:35:41,989 --> 03:35:44,324 NEED TO BE CONVERTED FROM 4611 03:35:44,324 --> 03:35:46,960 PROTEASES INTO MATURE VIRION, 4612 03:35:46,960 --> 03:35:48,695 AND THAT INVOLVES PROTEASES. 4613 03:35:48,695 --> 03:35:50,397 ONE OF THE BIZARRE THINGS ABOUT 4614 03:35:50,397 --> 03:35:52,232 MLV IS THE MATURATION OF 4615 03:35:52,232 --> 03:35:53,834 ENVELOPE -- AND THIS IS 4616 03:35:53,834 --> 03:35:55,569 DIFFERENT FROM MLV THAN IT IS 4617 03:35:55,569 --> 03:35:58,405 FOR THE OTHER VIRUSES -- IT'S A 4618 03:35:58,405 --> 03:36:00,007 PRO-STAGE VIRUS AND IT INVOLVES 4619 03:36:00,007 --> 03:36:01,575 TWO DIFFERENT PROTEASES. 4620 03:36:01,575 --> 03:36:02,943 THERE'S A HOST PROTEASE THAT 4621 03:36:02,943 --> 03:36:05,178 SEPARATES THE SURFACE AND THE 4622 03:36:05,178 --> 03:36:06,647 TRANSMEMORY PROTEIN, AND THAT 4623 03:36:06,647 --> 03:36:08,548 CLEAVAGE IS NECESSARY, BUT IT'S 4624 03:36:08,548 --> 03:36:12,419 NOT SUFFICIENT TO GIVE YOU 4625 03:36:12,419 --> 03:36:13,186 FUSIGENIC ABILITY. 4626 03:36:13,186 --> 03:36:15,188 AND THE SECOND, AND THIS IS THE 4627 03:36:15,188 --> 03:36:17,357 STORY OF ALAN'S THAT I LIKE SO 4628 03:36:17,357 --> 03:36:19,793 MUCH, THERE'S A SECOND CLEAVAGE 4629 03:36:19,793 --> 03:36:23,897 WHICH REMOVES ABOUT A 2 KB FROM 4630 03:36:23,897 --> 03:36:26,333 THE END OF TRANSMEMORY THAT'S 4631 03:36:26,333 --> 03:36:29,169 CARRIED OUT BY THE MLV PROTEASE. 4632 03:36:29,169 --> 03:36:32,305 AND IT TURNS OUT THIS IS A VERY 4633 03:36:32,305 --> 03:36:34,374 IMPORTANT SAFETY FEATURE THAT 4634 03:36:34,374 --> 03:36:36,977 PREVENTS THEM FROM BEING 4635 03:36:36,977 --> 03:36:37,678 FUSIGENIC BEFORE THAT LITTLE 4636 03:36:37,678 --> 03:36:39,413 PIECE IS REMOVED. 4637 03:36:39,413 --> 03:36:42,482 IN FACT, BECAUSE PROTEASE IS 4638 03:36:42,482 --> 03:36:46,086 ACTIVATED WHEN THE VIRION IS 4639 03:36:46,086 --> 03:36:47,621 RELEASES, THIS MEANS THE MLV ON 4640 03:36:47,621 --> 03:36:50,590 THE SURFACE OF CELLS IS NOT 4641 03:36:50,590 --> 03:36:51,625 FUSIGENIC, SO WHEN THAT PROTEIN 4642 03:36:51,625 --> 03:36:54,394 IS EXPRESSED WITHOUT PROTEASE, 4643 03:36:54,394 --> 03:36:58,565 THERE'S NO SYNCYTIA. 4644 03:36:58,565 --> 03:37:01,601 ALAN SHOWED THAT VERY ELEGANTLY, 4645 03:37:01,601 --> 03:37:03,036 AND I'LL SHOW YOU A SLIDE ON 4646 03:37:03,036 --> 03:37:04,571 THIS IN JUST A MOMENT. 4647 03:37:04,571 --> 03:37:07,507 IF YOU EXPRESS MLV THAT LACKS 4648 03:37:07,507 --> 03:37:11,678 THE P2E SAFETY PEPTIDE, THEN THE 4649 03:37:11,678 --> 03:37:14,648 PROTEIN IS FUSIGENIC ON THE 4650 03:37:14,648 --> 03:37:17,784 SURFACE OF THE CELLS AND MAKES 4651 03:37:17,784 --> 03:37:18,819 THE SYNCYTIA. 4652 03:37:18,819 --> 03:37:20,320 THESE ARE DESCRIBED IN TWO OF MY 4653 03:37:20,320 --> 03:37:21,154 FAVORITE ALAN PAPERS. 4654 03:37:21,154 --> 03:37:23,590 THE FIRST IS ACTUALLY THE 4655 03:37:23,590 --> 03:37:25,058 ORIGINAL DEMONSTRATION THAT THE 4656 03:37:25,058 --> 03:37:26,393 MLV PROTEASE IS INVOLVED, AND 4657 03:37:26,393 --> 03:37:28,462 THE SECOND WHICH IS ACTUALLY THE 4658 03:37:28,462 --> 03:37:30,430 ONE THAT'S, I THINK, GENERALLY 4659 03:37:30,430 --> 03:37:32,466 BETTER KNOWN, AND THIS WAS, I 4660 03:37:32,466 --> 03:37:34,234 BELIEVE, MENTIONED BY ERIC, IS 4661 03:37:34,234 --> 03:37:36,536 THE PAPER THAT SHOWS THAT THAT 4662 03:37:36,536 --> 03:37:39,106 REMOVAL IS, IN FACT, REMOVING 4663 03:37:39,106 --> 03:37:44,878 THE LITTLE SAFETY BIT. 4664 03:37:44,878 --> 03:37:46,713 SO THIS SLIDE THAT'S NEAREST ME, 4665 03:37:46,713 --> 03:37:49,216 THE SLIDE THAT'S ON THE RIGHT, 4666 03:37:49,216 --> 03:37:53,754 MY RIGHT, SHOWED THAT THE 4667 03:37:53,754 --> 03:37:55,922 ENVELOPE IF EXPRESSED WITHOUT 4668 03:37:55,922 --> 03:37:56,957 PROTEASE, THE CELLS ARE 4669 03:37:56,957 --> 03:37:58,792 PERFECTLY HAPPY, BUT IF YOU 4670 03:37:58,792 --> 03:38:00,327 EXPRESS A DELETED PART OF THE 4671 03:38:00,327 --> 03:38:02,395 PROTEIN THAT'S GOT THAT LITTLE 4672 03:38:02,395 --> 03:38:05,866 BIT LOPPED OFF, THEN YOU MAKE 4673 03:38:05,866 --> 03:38:06,967 LOTS OF SYNCYTIA. 4674 03:38:06,967 --> 03:38:09,169 THE MESSAGES HERE, THE MOST 4675 03:38:09,169 --> 03:38:10,637 FUNDAMENTAL MESSAGES, THE ONE I 4676 03:38:10,637 --> 03:38:12,672 LIKE THE BEST, IS THIS IS ONE OF 4677 03:38:12,672 --> 03:38:14,808 THE CLEAR DEMONSTRATION OF HOW, 4678 03:38:14,808 --> 03:38:17,077 IN FACT, ELEGANTLY AND CAREFULLY 4679 03:38:17,077 --> 03:38:19,312 THE VIRUSES, EVEN REALLY WHAT WE 4680 03:38:19,312 --> 03:38:21,982 THINK OF AS VERY SIMPLE VIRUSES, 4681 03:38:21,982 --> 03:38:25,152 HOW CAREFULLY THEY MANAGE THEIR 4682 03:38:25,152 --> 03:38:28,655 MATURATION AND HOW EXQUISITELY 4683 03:38:28,655 --> 03:38:29,923 APPROPRIATE THEIR INTERACTIONS 4684 03:38:29,923 --> 03:38:32,325 WITH THE HOST CELLS ARE. 4685 03:38:32,325 --> 03:38:35,662 IT TURNS OUT THAT OTHER 4686 03:38:35,662 --> 03:38:36,897 INTERACTIONS, LIKE THE AVIAN 4687 03:38:36,897 --> 03:38:39,266 VIRUSES I PRIMARILY WORKED WITH 4688 03:38:39,266 --> 03:38:42,469 BEFORE HIV, AND HIV ITSELF, ALSO 4689 03:38:42,469 --> 03:38:46,139 REGULATE THE FUSIGENICITY OF 4690 03:38:46,139 --> 03:38:48,408 THEIR ENVELOPE PROTEINS ON THE 4691 03:38:48,408 --> 03:38:49,743 SURFACE OF THEIR PRODUCER CELLS. 4692 03:38:49,743 --> 03:38:53,113 BUT, IN FACT, THE UNDERLYING 4693 03:38:53,113 --> 03:38:55,515 MECHANISMS BUT WHICH 4694 03:38:55,515 --> 03:39:03,423 RETROVIRUSES CONTROL THIS USE 4695 03:39:03,423 --> 03:39:04,624 PARTICULAR TRICKS. 4696 03:39:04,624 --> 03:39:06,693 THIS IS BEAUTIFUL TO HAVE PEOPLE 4697 03:39:06,693 --> 03:39:09,796 THAT LOVE NON-HIV RETROVIRUSES 4698 03:39:09,796 --> 03:39:11,698 SPEAK BECAUSE ONE OF THE 4699 03:39:11,698 --> 03:39:12,766 MESSAGES I THINK THIS SHOULD 4700 03:39:12,766 --> 03:39:14,701 BRING HOME TO ALL OF THIS, AND 4701 03:39:14,701 --> 03:39:15,969 ONE OF THE GREAT THEMES, I 4702 03:39:15,969 --> 03:39:18,305 THINK, OF ALAN'S CAREER, IS IN 4703 03:39:18,305 --> 03:39:19,172 SPITE OF THE FACT THAT PEOPLE 4704 03:39:19,172 --> 03:39:21,575 THAT GIVE OUT THE MONEY DON'T 4705 03:39:21,575 --> 03:39:24,177 SEEM TO THINK SO, STUDYING 4706 03:39:24,177 --> 03:39:25,145 RETROVIRUSES OTHER THAN HIV IS 4707 03:39:25,145 --> 03:39:27,480 STILL VERY VALUABLE. 4708 03:39:27,480 --> 03:39:29,182 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS 4709 03:39:29,182 --> 03:39:32,352 SORT OF AN ASTOUNDING ASIDE IS 4710 03:39:32,352 --> 03:39:35,922 THAT, IN FACT, ALTHOUGH WHILE 4711 03:39:35,922 --> 03:39:39,259 HIV DOESN'T USE THE PROTOIATION 4712 03:39:39,259 --> 03:39:41,494 AS A WAY TO REGULATE HOW FUSION 4713 03:39:41,494 --> 03:39:42,929 IS CONTROLLED, THERE'S ACTUALLY 4714 03:39:42,929 --> 03:39:48,301 A BEAUT OF HIV THAT WAS STUDIED 4715 03:39:48,301 --> 03:39:51,137 BY ABDUL WAHIM WHEN HE WAS IN 4716 03:39:51,137 --> 03:39:53,306 ERIC'S LAB, THAT DOES USE THIS 4717 03:39:53,306 --> 03:39:53,573 MECHANISM. 4718 03:39:53,573 --> 03:39:54,975 I'M NOT GOING TO TRY TO SORT 4719 03:39:54,975 --> 03:39:56,943 THROUGH THAT, BUT IF YOU'RE 4720 03:39:56,943 --> 03:39:58,011 INTERESTED, YOU CAN ASK EITHER 4721 03:39:58,011 --> 03:39:59,880 ABDUL OR ERIC, AND I WOULD 4722 03:39:59,880 --> 03:40:01,114 RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO SO BECAUSE 4723 03:40:01,114 --> 03:40:03,516 IT'S A VERY CUTE STORY. 4724 03:40:03,516 --> 03:40:05,385 ONE OF THE STORIES -- AGAIN, ONE 4725 03:40:05,385 --> 03:40:08,188 OF MY -- THESE ARE ALL SOME OF 4726 03:40:08,188 --> 03:40:12,058 MY FAVORITE ALAN STORIES, AND 4727 03:40:12,058 --> 03:40:13,360 I'M NOT TRYING TO SUGGEST TO YOU 4728 03:40:13,360 --> 03:40:15,862 THAT I PICKED THE THINGS THAT IN 4729 03:40:15,862 --> 03:40:18,365 SOME COSMIC SENSE ARE THE MOST 4730 03:40:18,365 --> 03:40:19,532 SCIENTIFICALLY IMPORTANT, 4731 03:40:19,532 --> 03:40:21,568 ALTHOUGH THIS ONE, I'M GOING TO 4732 03:40:21,568 --> 03:40:23,603 ARGUE, THAT'S ENORMOUS IMPACT, 4733 03:40:23,603 --> 03:40:26,539 BUT THESE HAVE BEEN, FOR ME, 4734 03:40:26,539 --> 03:40:32,846 VERY PERSONAL LY ENLIGHTENING. 4735 03:40:32,846 --> 03:40:34,447 AND EACH ONE OF THESE RESONATES 4736 03:40:34,447 --> 03:40:36,249 WITH ME, AND I'LL TRY TO EXPLAIN 4737 03:40:36,249 --> 03:40:36,449 WHY. 4738 03:40:36,449 --> 03:40:37,784 THE ONE I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT 4739 03:40:37,784 --> 03:40:40,153 NOW IS THE DEMONSTRATION THAT 4740 03:40:40,153 --> 03:40:47,661 THE MINOXIDIL PHOSPHATES, IP5 OR 4741 03:40:47,661 --> 03:40:48,895 IP6 ARE IMPORTANT IN THE 4742 03:40:48,895 --> 03:40:52,299 ASSEMBLY, THE PROPER AND NORMAL 4743 03:40:52,299 --> 03:40:54,968 ASSEMBLY OF HIV-GAG. 4744 03:40:54,968 --> 03:40:57,504 WE NOW KNOW THAT THE ROLE OF IP5 4745 03:40:57,504 --> 03:41:00,006 AND IP6 IS IMPORTANT NOT ONLY IN 4746 03:41:00,006 --> 03:41:02,142 THE APPROPRIATE ASSEMBLY OF GAG, 4747 03:41:02,142 --> 03:41:03,310 BUT IT'S ALSO SUBSEQUENTLY 4748 03:41:03,310 --> 03:41:05,412 IMPORTANT IN THE PROPER ASSEMBLY 4749 03:41:05,412 --> 03:41:08,181 OF THE CAPSID PROTEIN TO FORM 4750 03:41:08,181 --> 03:41:11,751 THE CAPSID WITHIN THE VIRION. 4751 03:41:11,751 --> 03:41:13,153 IT TURNS OUT -- AND I SUSPECT 4752 03:41:13,153 --> 03:41:14,587 MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE 4753 03:41:14,587 --> 03:41:15,989 AUDIENCE KNOW THIS -- THAT THE 4754 03:41:15,989 --> 03:41:18,992 NEGATIVELY CHARGED PHOSPHATES OF 4755 03:41:18,992 --> 03:41:21,494 IP5 AND IP6 INTERACT WITH 4756 03:41:21,494 --> 03:41:24,097 POSITIVELY CHARGED AMINO ACIDS, 4757 03:41:24,097 --> 03:41:27,467 AND THEY STABILIZE HEXAMERIC 4758 03:41:27,467 --> 03:41:30,470 FORMS OF EITHER GAG OR CAPSID. 4759 03:41:30,470 --> 03:41:32,472 THESE SUBSEQUENT RECOGNITIONS OF 4760 03:41:32,472 --> 03:41:36,509 THE IMPACT OF IP5 AND IP6 ON 4761 03:41:36,509 --> 03:41:40,714 BOTH GAG ASSEMBLY AND CAPSID, 4762 03:41:40,714 --> 03:41:42,682 AND EXACTLY HOW THEY DO IT -- 4763 03:41:42,682 --> 03:41:43,650 AND I'LL SHOW YOU THE STRUCTURAL 4764 03:41:43,650 --> 03:41:45,151 INFORMATION IN A LIMITED WAY IN 4765 03:41:45,151 --> 03:41:46,753 JUST A MOMENT -- ALL OF THESE 4766 03:41:46,753 --> 03:41:48,822 SUBSEQUENT DISCOVERIES REST ON 4767 03:41:48,822 --> 03:41:50,390 THE INITIAL DEMONSTRATION OF 4768 03:41:50,390 --> 03:41:52,058 ALAN'S LABORATORY THAT THE IP5 4769 03:41:52,058 --> 03:41:54,294 AND IP6 HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN 4770 03:41:54,294 --> 03:42:02,635 THE ASSEMBLY OF GAG IN-VITRO. 4771 03:42:02,635 --> 03:42:03,603 YOU'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THIS 4772 03:42:03,603 --> 03:42:05,138 REFERENCE BEFORE, AND THIS IS -- 4773 03:42:05,138 --> 03:42:07,307 I WILL REMIND YOU AGAIN THIS IS 4774 03:42:07,307 --> 03:42:09,409 NOT QUITE 25 YEARS AGO. 4775 03:42:09,409 --> 03:42:11,378 SO THIS IS A LONG WAY BACK, AND 4776 03:42:11,378 --> 03:42:13,980 IT'S TAKEN ALL THIS TIME, I 4777 03:42:13,980 --> 03:42:16,549 THINK, FOR PEOPLE TO PROPERLY 4778 03:42:16,549 --> 03:42:23,590 APPRECIATE HOW IMPORTANT IP5 AND 4779 03:42:23,590 --> 03:42:25,025 IP6 ARE IN WHAT WE NOW KNOW 4780 03:42:25,025 --> 03:42:27,160 ABOUT HIV, AND IT TURNS OUT 4781 03:42:27,160 --> 03:42:28,428 SUBSEQUENTLY IN OTHER 4782 03:42:28,428 --> 03:42:29,162 RETROVIRUSES AS WELL. 4783 03:42:29,162 --> 03:42:30,630 THIS IS A SLIGHTLY COBBLED 4784 03:42:30,630 --> 03:42:31,931 TOGETHER SLIDE, AND I APOLOGIZE 4785 03:42:31,931 --> 03:42:34,334 THAT IT'S NOT A BETTER ONE. 4786 03:42:34,334 --> 03:42:41,474 IT'S MY FAULT, NOT ALAN'S. 4787 03:42:41,474 --> 03:42:43,276 WHEN ALAN AND HIS COLLEAGUE, IN 4788 03:42:43,276 --> 03:42:45,645 THIS PARTICULAR CASE, STEVE 4789 03:42:45,645 --> 03:42:46,546 CAMPBELL, BEGAN TRYING TO 4790 03:42:46,546 --> 03:42:48,581 ASSEMBLE GAG PARTICLES IN A TEST 4791 03:42:48,581 --> 03:42:49,949 TUBE, USING A SLIGHTLY MODIFIED 4792 03:42:49,949 --> 03:42:51,451 FORM OF GAG, WHEN THEY FIRST 4793 03:42:51,451 --> 03:42:53,520 STARTED DOING THAT, THE FIRST 4794 03:42:53,520 --> 03:42:55,955 THING THEY SAW WAS THAT THEY 4795 03:42:55,955 --> 03:43:00,593 COULD GET LITTLE VIRUS-LIKE 4796 03:43:00,593 --> 03:43:02,662 PARTICLES, BUT THEY'RE VERY MUCH 4797 03:43:02,662 --> 03:43:06,833 THEIR OWN SIZE FOR THE 4798 03:43:06,833 --> 03:43:07,167 EXPERIMENT. 4799 03:43:07,167 --> 03:43:08,635 THEY'RE TOO SMALL, CONSIDERABLY 4800 03:43:08,635 --> 03:43:09,102 TOO SMALL. 4801 03:43:09,102 --> 03:43:11,571 THIS IS A BIT OF A CHEAT BECAUSE 4802 03:43:11,571 --> 03:43:13,206 THEY'RE SLIGHTLY COBBLED 4803 03:43:13,206 --> 03:43:14,340 TOGETHER, SO I WON'T SWEAR TO 4804 03:43:14,340 --> 03:43:15,975 YOU THE SIZE RATIOS ARE EXACTLY 4805 03:43:15,975 --> 03:43:16,342 RIGHT. 4806 03:43:16,342 --> 03:43:17,610 BUT THE IDEA THAT THEY'RE WAY 4807 03:43:17,610 --> 03:43:18,878 TOO SMALL IS CORRECT. 4808 03:43:18,878 --> 03:43:21,247 BUT THE THING THAT WAS 4809 03:43:21,247 --> 03:43:31,658 ASTOUNDING WAS IF IF 4810 03:43:31,658 --> 03:43:33,693 RETICULOCYTE IS ADDED, YOU GET 4811 03:43:33,693 --> 03:43:36,196 THE SIZE CORRECT, AND YOU KNOW 4812 03:43:36,196 --> 03:43:37,664 THE SIZE IS CORRECT BECAUSE 4813 03:43:37,664 --> 03:43:39,432 THERE'S HIV CORE FOR COMPARISON. 4814 03:43:39,432 --> 03:43:44,637 SOMETHING MAGICAL IN THE RABBIT 4815 03:43:44,637 --> 03:43:45,805 RETICULOCYTE WAS ABLE TO CONVERT 4816 03:43:45,805 --> 03:43:47,073 THE WRONG ASSEMBLY INTO THE 4817 03:43:47,073 --> 03:43:48,541 RIGHT ASSEMBLY, AND THEY SHOWED 4818 03:43:48,541 --> 03:43:52,846 THAT MAGIC SOMETHING WAS IP5 AND 4819 03:43:52,846 --> 03:43:58,818 IP6, AND INSTEAD OF ADDING THE 4820 03:43:58,818 --> 03:44:02,288 RETICULOCYTE, YOU ADD SIMPLY THE 4821 03:44:02,288 --> 03:44:04,023 APPROPRIATE CO-FACTOR. 4822 03:44:04,023 --> 03:44:05,458 THIS IS A DEMONSTRATION OF 4823 03:44:05,458 --> 03:44:07,494 WHAT'S GOING ON TAKEN FROM A 4824 03:44:07,494 --> 03:44:10,864 REVIEW THAT WAS WRITTEN BY ALAN. 4825 03:44:10,864 --> 03:44:13,433 SO YOU HAVE THE IMMATURE VIRION 4826 03:44:13,433 --> 03:44:16,136 HERE AND YOU HAVE THE LITTLE 4827 03:44:16,136 --> 03:44:18,471 PIECE THAT'S CAPSID. 4828 03:44:18,471 --> 03:44:22,442 OVER HERE YOU SEE THE C-TERMINAL 4829 03:44:22,442 --> 03:44:24,344 DOMAIN OF CAPSID EMBEDDED IN 4830 03:44:24,344 --> 03:44:24,511 GAG. 4831 03:44:24,511 --> 03:44:26,746 IT'S GOT A LITTLE BIT OF A SPACE 4832 03:44:26,746 --> 03:44:28,381 FOR PEPTIDE 1 ATTACHED TO IT, 4833 03:44:28,381 --> 03:44:34,888 AND IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SEE. 4834 03:44:34,888 --> 03:44:37,524 BUT IP6 IS RIGHT THERE, AND THE 4835 03:44:37,524 --> 03:44:39,692 PHOSPHATES OF IP6, IN THIS CASE, 4836 03:44:39,692 --> 03:44:44,531 ARE INTERACTING WITH A RING OF 4837 03:44:44,531 --> 03:44:48,268 AMINO ACIDS HOLDING THE HEX 4838 03:44:48,268 --> 03:44:52,138 TOGETHER, IN THIS CASE, 4839 03:44:52,138 --> 03:44:52,705 HEXAMERIC GAG. 4840 03:44:52,705 --> 03:44:54,207 IN A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FASHION, 4841 03:44:54,207 --> 03:44:56,876 THE SAME SMALL MOLECULE IS ABLE 4842 03:44:56,876 --> 03:45:01,147 TO BRING TOGETHER THE HEXAMERIC 4843 03:45:01,147 --> 03:45:03,983 ARRAY OF CAPSID ITSELF. 4844 03:45:03,983 --> 03:45:05,518 THERE IT'S A LITTLE EASIER TO 4845 03:45:05,518 --> 03:45:07,153 SEE, THE IP6 IN THE MIDDLE WITH 4846 03:45:07,153 --> 03:45:09,756 THE PHOSPHATES AROUND THE EDGE 4847 03:45:09,756 --> 03:45:12,425 AND THE 6 CAPSIDS. 4848 03:45:12,425 --> 03:45:15,028 IN THIS CASE, THIS IS THE MATURE 4849 03:45:15,028 --> 03:45:16,396 CAPSID IN THE MATURE VIRION. 4850 03:45:16,396 --> 03:45:18,198 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S 4851 03:45:18,198 --> 03:45:20,733 INTERESTING ABOUT THIS TO ME IS, 4852 03:45:20,733 --> 03:45:24,304 IN FACT, ALTHOUGH THE SIMILAR 4853 03:45:24,304 --> 03:45:26,706 TYPE OF INTERACTION IS TAKING 4854 03:45:26,706 --> 03:45:28,508 PLACE IN BOTH CASES, IN WHICH 4855 03:45:28,508 --> 03:45:32,011 YOU HAVE THE PHOSPHATES BEING A 4856 03:45:32,011 --> 03:45:34,180 CHARGE, A RING OF CHARGE THAT 4857 03:45:34,180 --> 03:45:37,450 BRINGS TOGETHER THE SIX 4858 03:45:37,450 --> 03:45:38,551 COMPARTMENTS, WHETHER IT'S GAG 4859 03:45:38,551 --> 03:45:41,354 OR CAPSID, EXACTLY WHERE THOSE 4860 03:45:41,354 --> 03:45:43,223 ARE IN CAPSID IS DIFFERENT. 4861 03:45:43,223 --> 03:45:45,792 SO IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN THE 4862 03:45:45,792 --> 03:45:49,963 CONTEXT OF GAG, THESE TWO 4863 03:45:49,963 --> 03:45:53,266 LYSATES, ONE HERE AND ONE HERE 4864 03:45:53,266 --> 03:46:02,775 RIGHT NEXT TO SB 1, AND YOU LOOK 4865 03:46:02,775 --> 03:46:05,845 AT THE MATURE GAG, IT'S IN A 4866 03:46:05,845 --> 03:46:06,713 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PLACE AND 4867 03:46:06,713 --> 03:46:07,981 DIFFERENT AMINO ACIDS. 4868 03:46:07,981 --> 03:46:09,716 IT'S THE SAME THEME, BUT IT'S 4869 03:46:09,716 --> 03:46:11,284 MAKING USE OF THE INTERACTIONS, 4870 03:46:11,284 --> 03:46:13,353 WHICH IS A SIMILAR INTERACTION, 4871 03:46:13,353 --> 03:46:15,355 INVOLVING DIFFERENT AMINO ACIDS. 4872 03:46:15,355 --> 03:46:16,289 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S 4873 03:46:16,289 --> 03:46:17,757 SORT OF CUTE ABOUT THAT, WHICH 4874 03:46:17,757 --> 03:46:19,259 HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEEN 4875 03:46:19,259 --> 03:46:21,060 RECOGNIZED, I THINK, IS THE 4876 03:46:21,060 --> 03:46:23,129 INTERACTION WITH GAG THAT BRINGS 4877 03:46:23,129 --> 03:46:27,667 THE IP5 AND IP 6 INTO THE VIRION 4878 03:46:27,667 --> 03:46:31,504 WHERE IT CAN ACT TO NUCLEATE THE 4879 03:46:31,504 --> 03:46:32,705 ASSEMBLY OF THE CAPSID AT THE 4880 03:46:32,705 --> 03:46:34,140 TIME AND PLACE THAT IT IS 4881 03:46:34,140 --> 03:46:34,374 NEEDED. 4882 03:46:34,374 --> 03:46:36,142 OF COURSE, IN A SITUATION IN 4883 03:46:36,142 --> 03:46:40,680 WHICH THE IP5 AND IP6 IS NOT 4884 03:46:40,680 --> 03:46:45,852 BROUGHT IN WHICH THE INTERACTION 4885 03:46:45,852 --> 03:46:48,388 WITH GAG, IT WON'T BE THERE FOR 4886 03:46:48,388 --> 03:46:53,926 CAPSID TO PROPERLY ASSEMBLE. 4887 03:46:53,926 --> 03:46:56,529 SO I THINK THE KEY IDEA HERE, AT 4888 03:46:56,529 --> 03:46:58,331 LEAST FOR ME, IS THAT THE 4889 03:46:58,331 --> 03:47:02,368 DISCOVERY OF IP5 AND IP6, THE 4890 03:47:02,368 --> 03:47:03,970 DISCOVERY OF THOSE TWO PROTEINS, 4891 03:47:03,970 --> 03:47:05,805 THOSE TWO SMALL MOLECULES, PLAY 4892 03:47:05,805 --> 03:47:07,740 A CRUCIAL ROLE IN GAG ASSEMBLY, 4893 03:47:07,740 --> 03:47:10,743 PAVED THE WAY FOR OUR CURRENT 4894 03:47:10,743 --> 03:47:13,413 UNDERSTANDING MEMORY OF HOW GAG 4895 03:47:13,413 --> 03:47:15,348 ASSEMBLES, BUT IN FACT HOW 4896 03:47:15,348 --> 03:47:17,684 CAPSID ASSEMBLES, AND THOSE 4897 03:47:17,684 --> 03:47:18,851 DISCOVERIES UNDERLIE OUR CURRENT 4898 03:47:18,851 --> 03:47:20,586 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW REVERSE 4899 03:47:20,586 --> 03:47:23,623 TRANSCRIPTION TAKES PLACE IN 4900 03:47:23,623 --> 03:47:24,324 CAPSIDS. 4901 03:47:24,324 --> 03:47:26,926 THAT ALSO HAS FACILITATED SOME 4902 03:47:26,926 --> 03:47:27,894 REALLY IMPORTANT STRUCTURAL 4903 03:47:27,894 --> 03:47:29,462 WORK, SOME OF WHICH YOU'VE SEEN 4904 03:47:29,462 --> 03:47:31,464 FROM ME, OR MORE LIKELY IN TALKS 4905 03:47:31,464 --> 03:47:35,868 GIVEN BY OTHERS. 4906 03:47:35,868 --> 03:47:37,370 THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS 4907 03:47:37,370 --> 03:47:38,538 FROM MY OWN PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE 4908 03:47:38,538 --> 03:47:40,340 IS THAT, WHEN THE GAG ASSEMBLY 4909 03:47:40,340 --> 03:47:43,242 WORK WAS BEING DONE, ALAN'S LAB 4910 03:47:43,242 --> 03:47:46,179 AND MY LAB HAD HELD JOINT LAB 4911 03:47:46,179 --> 03:47:48,681 MEETI 4912 03:47:48,681 --> 03:47:49,949 MEETINGS, AND IT WAS STEVE 4913 03:47:49,949 --> 03:47:52,151 CAMPBELL WHO DID THE ACTUAL WORK 4914 03:47:52,151 --> 03:47:55,355 ON THE ASSEMBLY OF GAG. 4915 03:47:55,355 --> 03:47:57,156 WHEN HE DISCOVERED THAT THERE 4916 03:47:57,156 --> 03:48:07,700 WAS SOMETHING MAGIC IN RETIC 4917 03:48:11,471 --> 03:48:16,976 RETICULOSITE GLYSATES, HE WAS 4918 03:48:16,976 --> 03:48:18,411 GOING TO IMPORT HIM. 4919 03:48:18,411 --> 03:48:21,080 I DECIDED TO KEEP MY BIG MOUTH 4920 03:48:21,080 --> 03:48:23,750 SHUT, AND I DIDN'T TELL THEM HOW 4921 03:48:23,750 --> 03:48:25,551 HORRIBLE I THOUGHT HE WAS GOING 4922 03:48:25,551 --> 03:48:28,721 TO BE TO PULL OUT THIS FACTOR 4923 03:48:28,721 --> 03:48:38,030 FROM EITHER ONE. 4924 03:48:38,030 --> 03:48:38,865 I WAS QUITE CONFIDENT IT WAS 4925 03:48:38,865 --> 03:48:41,401 GOING TO BE SOME BIG, LARGE, 4926 03:48:41,401 --> 03:48:42,168 COMPLICATED PROTEIN THAT WAS 4927 03:48:42,168 --> 03:48:44,537 GOING TO SOMEHOW MODIFY THE 4928 03:48:44,537 --> 03:48:45,671 STRUCTURE OF THE GAG BITS, AND I 4929 03:48:45,671 --> 03:48:48,107 WAS JUST ALL WRONG. 4930 03:48:48,107 --> 03:48:51,944 THE OTHER THING THAT WAS 4931 03:48:51,944 --> 03:48:53,679 IMPRESSIVE WAS IN VERY SHORT 4932 03:48:53,679 --> 03:48:54,881 ORDER, THEY PULLED OUT THE 4933 03:48:54,881 --> 03:48:56,115 MOLECULE AND IDENTIFIED IT. 4934 03:48:56,115 --> 03:48:57,850 THIS WAS A SEMINAL DISCOVERY 4935 03:48:57,850 --> 03:48:59,218 THAT'S REALLY SET THE STAGE FOR 4936 03:48:59,218 --> 03:49:01,888 A LOT OF WHAT'S GOING ON NOW 4937 03:49:01,888 --> 03:49:03,589 BOTH IN TERMS OF CAPSID AND 4938 03:49:03,589 --> 03:49:04,290 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION AND A 4939 03:49:04,290 --> 03:49:06,592 WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS. 4940 03:49:06,592 --> 03:49:08,027 SO THIS IS ONE OF THE ONES I 4941 03:49:08,027 --> 03:49:08,961 REALLY LIKE. 4942 03:49:08,961 --> 03:49:11,197 AND BOTH OF THE THINGS I'VE TOLD 4943 03:49:11,197 --> 03:49:13,633 YOU SO FAR IN THE LITTLE 4944 03:49:13,633 --> 03:49:14,867 VIGNETTES ARE LITTLE VIGNETTES 4945 03:49:14,867 --> 03:49:16,269 THAT OTHERS HAVE MENTIONED, BUT 4946 03:49:16,269 --> 03:49:17,804 ONE OF THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY NO 4947 03:49:17,804 --> 03:49:19,005 ONE HAS TALKED ABOUT -- AND THIS 4948 03:49:19,005 --> 03:49:20,440 IS ACTUALLY A MEASURE OF THE 4949 03:49:20,440 --> 03:49:21,607 FACT THAT THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS 4950 03:49:21,607 --> 03:49:22,975 TO TALK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING 4951 03:49:22,975 --> 03:49:26,345 ABOUT ALAN'S CAREER -- IS THAT, 4952 03:49:26,345 --> 03:49:29,782 IN FACT, XMRV -- AND SOME OF YOU 4953 03:49:29,782 --> 03:49:31,017 MAY HAVE HAD EITHER GOOD OR BAD 4954 03:49:31,017 --> 03:49:34,387 MEMORIES OF THIS. 4955 03:49:34,387 --> 03:49:35,988 XMRV IS A LABORATORY 4956 03:49:35,988 --> 03:49:36,289 CONTAMINANT. 4957 03:49:36,289 --> 03:49:37,457 IT'S NOT A HUMAN PATHOGEN. 4958 03:49:37,457 --> 03:49:39,192 AS I SAID, SOME OF YOU MAY 4959 03:49:39,192 --> 03:49:40,693 REMEMBER THE CLAIMS THAT ARE NOW 4960 03:49:40,693 --> 03:49:45,531 CLEARLY FALSE THAT A MURINE 4961 03:49:45,531 --> 03:49:48,401 RETROVIRUS XMRV WAS FOUND IN 4962 03:49:48,401 --> 03:49:50,369 PROSTATE TUMORS AND ASSOCIATED 4963 03:49:50,369 --> 03:49:52,138 WITH CANCER AND ALL SORTS OF 4964 03:49:52,138 --> 03:49:53,739 OTHER MAGIC THINGS DEPENDING ON 4965 03:49:53,739 --> 03:49:54,941 WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT WAS. 4966 03:49:54,941 --> 03:49:57,944 I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY THAT ALAN 4967 03:49:57,944 --> 03:50:00,213 WAS THE ONLY LAB IN DRP TO WORK 4968 03:50:00,213 --> 03:50:05,084 ON THIS, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF 4969 03:50:05,084 --> 03:50:10,623 DRPs AND PIs THAT SORTED OUT ALL 4970 03:50:10,623 --> 03:50:11,958 THESE CLAIMS, BUT WHAT WAS 4971 03:50:11,958 --> 03:50:13,025 REALLY IMPORTANT IS SOMEONE 4972 03:50:13,025 --> 03:50:14,427 NEEDED TO LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE 4973 03:50:14,427 --> 03:50:16,896 PROSTATE CANCER CLAIMS. 4974 03:50:16,896 --> 03:50:21,734 ALAN MADE USE OF HIS CONTACTS 4975 03:50:21,734 --> 03:50:24,637 WITHIN THE NCI TO GET PROSTATE 4976 03:50:24,637 --> 03:50:26,572 TUMOR SAMPLES, AND HE WAS VERY 4977 03:50:26,572 --> 03:50:28,341 BOTHERED BY THE FACT THAT, WHEN 4978 03:50:28,341 --> 03:50:31,077 THE PROSTATE SAMPLES WERE 4979 03:50:31,077 --> 03:50:33,479 CAREFULLY ANALYZED BOTH BY PCR 4980 03:50:33,479 --> 03:50:35,548 AND ANTIBODY STAINING, ALL THE 4981 03:50:35,548 --> 03:50:36,883 CONTROLS WORKED AND ALL THE 4982 03:50:36,883 --> 03:50:39,585 PROSTATE SAMPLES WERE NEGATIVE. 4983 03:50:39,585 --> 03:50:44,357 THIS IS THE MOST RELEVANT PAPER 4984 03:50:44,357 --> 03:50:49,295 THAT DESCRIBES THAT. 4985 03:50:49,295 --> 03:50:50,863 THIS IS ONE OF THE PIECES OF 4986 03:50:50,863 --> 03:50:52,498 INFORMATION, THIS IS AN ANTIBODY 4987 03:50:52,498 --> 03:50:53,733 STAIN, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE 4988 03:50:53,733 --> 03:50:56,068 CONTROLS AT THE TOP HAVE THINGS 4989 03:50:56,068 --> 03:50:57,403 THAT OBVIOUSLY STAIN STRONGLY 4990 03:50:57,403 --> 03:51:01,741 WITH ANTIBODY THAT RECOGNIZES 4991 03:51:01,741 --> 03:51:04,877 XMRV, AND SURE ENOUGH, BOTH THE 4992 03:51:04,877 --> 03:51:06,946 NORMAL PROSTATE AND THE TERMINAL 4993 03:51:06,946 --> 03:51:08,414 SAMPLES ARE ALL NEGATIVE. 4994 03:51:08,414 --> 03:51:09,515 IT'S IMPORTANT TO STATE, THOUGH 4995 03:51:09,515 --> 03:51:11,851 I'M NOT GOING TO SHOW ANY OF THE 4996 03:51:11,851 --> 03:51:14,520 DATA, THAT ALL OF THE DATA ALAN 4997 03:51:14,520 --> 03:51:16,055 AND HIS COLLEAGUES OBTAINED 4998 03:51:16,055 --> 03:51:19,458 USING PCR WAS EQUIVALENTLY 4999 03:51:19,458 --> 03:51:20,259 NEGATIVE. 5000 03:51:20,259 --> 03:51:21,327 THERE WERE TWO THINGS THAT VERY 5001 03:51:21,327 --> 03:51:22,795 MUCH IMPRESSED ME ABOUT THE WORK 5002 03:51:22,795 --> 03:51:24,397 THAT WAS DONE WITH THE PROSTATE 5003 03:51:24,397 --> 03:51:26,132 SAMPLES IN ALAN'S LAB. 5004 03:51:26,132 --> 03:51:28,601 THE FIRST WAS, IN CONTRAST TO 5005 03:51:28,601 --> 03:51:30,836 WHAT A NUMBER OF OTHER LABS, NOT 5006 03:51:30,836 --> 03:51:34,006 HERE IN FREDERICK BUT ELSEWHERE, 5007 03:51:34,006 --> 03:51:35,174 WERE DOING, ALL THE RESULTS WERE 5008 03:51:35,174 --> 03:51:37,577 NEGATIVE. 5009 03:51:37,577 --> 03:51:39,078 WHICH OF COURSE TURNS OUT TO BE 5010 03:51:39,078 --> 03:51:40,246 THE RIGHT ANSWER. 5011 03:51:40,246 --> 03:51:42,582 THE SECOND THING THAT WAS 5012 03:51:42,582 --> 03:51:45,851 IMPRESSIVE WAS HOW WORRIED ALAN 5013 03:51:45,851 --> 03:51:47,954 WAS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO 5014 03:51:47,954 --> 03:51:49,021 TRY TO REACH A CONCLUSION THAT 5015 03:51:49,021 --> 03:51:53,259 WAS BASED ON NEGATIVE DATA. 5016 03:51:53,259 --> 03:51:56,395 AND THAT, I THINK, HAS A REALLY 5017 03:51:56,395 --> 03:51:58,431 IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT RESONATES 5018 03:51:58,431 --> 03:52:00,199 VERY STRONGLY WITH ME, AND THAT 5019 03:52:00,199 --> 03:52:02,168 IS YOU'VE GOT TO BE YOUR OWN 5020 03:52:02,168 --> 03:52:03,836 HARSHEST CRITIC, AND YOU'VE GOT 5021 03:52:03,836 --> 03:52:06,739 TO BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH 5022 03:52:06,739 --> 03:52:11,210 NEGATIVE DATA. 5023 03:52:11,210 --> 03:52:12,778 ALAN, AFTER HAVING DONE HEROIC 5024 03:52:12,778 --> 03:52:15,314 WORK ON THIS AND HAVING SPOKEN 5025 03:52:15,314 --> 03:52:19,452 WITH HIS DRP COLLEAGUES, WAS 5026 03:52:19,452 --> 03:52:20,486 CONVINCED, IN FACT, THAT THE 5027 03:52:20,486 --> 03:52:23,889 ANSWER WAS NO, WHICH IT IS. 5028 03:52:23,889 --> 03:52:26,859 NOW, YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT ALAN'S 5029 03:52:26,859 --> 03:52:32,865 AFFECTION FOR GREAT MOVIES. 5030 03:52:32,865 --> 03:52:35,167 MY SESSIONS WITH HIM WAS MORE 5031 03:52:35,167 --> 03:52:36,636 OVER BOOKS THAN MOVIES. 5032 03:52:36,636 --> 03:52:39,405 HE HAS A REAL PASSION FOR GREAT 5033 03:52:39,405 --> 03:52:41,574 BOOKS, AND AGAIN AS OTHERS HAVE 5034 03:52:41,574 --> 03:52:43,275 MENTIONED IN OUR DISCUSSIONS, I 5035 03:52:43,275 --> 03:52:45,011 THINK I'VE GAINED MUCH MORE FROM 5036 03:52:45,011 --> 03:52:47,346 HIM IN TERMS OF THE BOOKS THAT 5037 03:52:47,346 --> 03:52:50,049 WE'VE READ AND THE THINGS THAT 5038 03:52:50,049 --> 03:52:51,851 WE'VE SUGGESTED THAN HE EVER 5039 03:52:51,851 --> 03:52:52,485 GAINED FROM ME. 5040 03:52:52,485 --> 03:52:54,720 BUT I THINK HE HAD SOME 5041 03:52:54,720 --> 03:52:56,756 PARTICULAR AFFECTION FOR I GUESS 5042 03:52:56,756 --> 03:52:59,158 WHAT I WOULD CALL RECENT SOCIAL 5043 03:52:59,158 --> 03:52:59,392 HISTORY. 5044 03:52:59,392 --> 03:53:01,460 THESE ARE A SERIES OF THREE 5045 03:53:01,460 --> 03:53:04,063 BOOKS BY TAYLOR BRANCH THAT ALAN 5046 03:53:04,063 --> 03:53:05,564 RECOMMENDED TO ME. 5047 03:53:05,564 --> 03:53:07,967 THEY RECOUNT THE HISTORY OF THE 5048 03:53:07,967 --> 03:53:09,001 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 5049 03:53:09,001 --> 03:53:10,636 UNITED STATES THROUGH THE LIFE 5050 03:53:10,636 --> 03:53:11,337 OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. 5051 03:53:11,337 --> 03:53:12,972 THEY'RE BY TAYLOR BRANCH. 5052 03:53:12,972 --> 03:53:15,007 THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST 5053 03:53:15,007 --> 03:53:19,345 MOVING BOOKS I'VE EVER READ, AND 5054 03:53:19,345 --> 03:53:20,613 THEY ARE SEMINAL, THEY ARE 5055 03:53:20,613 --> 03:53:21,547 BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, AND THEY 5056 03:53:21,547 --> 03:53:23,049 ARE COMPLETELY RELEVANT TODAY. 5057 03:53:23,049 --> 03:53:24,884 I WOULD RECOMMEND THEM TO EACH 5058 03:53:24,884 --> 03:53:25,551 OF YOU. 5059 03:53:25,551 --> 03:53:26,686 IN FACT, I THINK THE COUNTRY 5060 03:53:26,686 --> 03:53:28,587 WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE IF EVERY 5061 03:53:28,587 --> 03:53:30,656 MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD OVER THE 5062 03:53:30,656 --> 03:53:37,596 AGE OF ABOUT 12 WOULD READ THEM. 5063 03:53:37,596 --> 03:53:39,732 THEN I THINK YOU MAY HAVE SEEN 5064 03:53:39,732 --> 03:53:41,167 ALAN IN AN ORIOLES CAP. 5065 03:53:41,167 --> 03:53:44,170 I WOULD TEND TO SAY THAT HIS 5066 03:53:44,170 --> 03:53:45,538 ORIOLES CAPS TEND TO BE OF 5067 03:53:45,538 --> 03:53:46,839 SLIGHTLY HIGHER MILEAGE THAN 5068 03:53:46,839 --> 03:53:47,373 THIS ONE. 5069 03:53:47,373 --> 03:53:49,241 THE INTERESTING THING IS FROM 5070 03:53:49,241 --> 03:53:50,743 TIME TO TIME I'VE BEEN STANDING 5071 03:53:50,743 --> 03:53:53,245 NEAR ALAN OFTEN IN PLACES LIKE 5072 03:53:53,245 --> 03:53:55,014 COLD SPRING HARBOR WHERE HE'S 5073 03:53:55,014 --> 03:53:57,183 KNOWN, BUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HIM 5074 03:53:57,183 --> 03:53:58,818 PERSONALLY QUITE AS WELL AS I 5075 03:53:58,818 --> 03:53:58,984 DO. 5076 03:53:58,984 --> 03:54:00,419 SOMEBODY WILL COME UP TO HIM, 5077 03:54:00,419 --> 03:54:02,588 AND HE'S GOT AN ORIOLES BASEBALL 5078 03:54:02,588 --> 03:54:03,789 CAP, AND THEY'LL SAY, DO YOU 5079 03:54:03,789 --> 03:54:04,890 LIKE THE ORIOLES? 5080 03:54:04,890 --> 03:54:07,193 AND ALAN WILL GET THAT BEAUTIFUL 5081 03:54:07,193 --> 03:54:08,728 SMILE, WHICH HE ACTUALLY HAS ON 5082 03:54:08,728 --> 03:54:11,764 HIS FACE RIGHT NOW, AND HE'LL 5083 03:54:11,764 --> 03:54:15,501 SAY, I LIKE THE BIRD. 5084 03:54:15,501 --> 03:54:19,638 I THINK THAT SUMS IT UP EXACTLY. 5085 03:54:19,638 --> 03:54:26,245 ALAN DOES LOVE BIRDS, AND THAT'S 5086 03:54:26,245 --> 03:54:27,513 BEEN MENTIONED, AND HE'S 5087 03:54:27,513 --> 03:54:28,314 INCREDIBLY KNOWLEDGEABLE OF 5088 03:54:28,314 --> 03:54:29,315 BIRDS IN GENERAL. 5089 03:54:29,315 --> 03:54:30,950 WALKING WITH HIM AND HAVING HIM 5090 03:54:30,950 --> 03:54:32,384 TELL YOU WHICH BIRD IT IS 5091 03:54:32,384 --> 03:54:33,385 LISTENING TO THE BIRD SONG IS AN 5092 03:54:33,385 --> 03:54:40,159 EDUCATION IN ITSELF. 5093 03:54:40,159 --> 03:54:41,994 IN SPITE OF SOME OF HIS BETTER 5094 03:54:41,994 --> 03:54:43,496 EFFORTS, I LIKE BIRDS VERY MUCH, 5095 03:54:43,496 --> 03:54:44,597 BUT MY KNOWLEDGE OF BIRDS IS 5096 03:54:44,597 --> 03:54:46,065 THEY'RE PRETTY AND I LIKE TO SEE 5097 03:54:46,065 --> 03:54:48,667 THEM FLY AND SOME OF THEM ARE 5098 03:54:48,667 --> 03:54:48,934 TASTY. 5099 03:54:48,934 --> 03:54:51,737 SO I'LL FINISH BY TRYING TO PICK 5100 03:54:51,737 --> 03:54:54,507 A BIRD THAT HAS SOMETHING THAT 5101 03:54:54,507 --> 03:54:55,808 BOTH HE AND I CAN LIKE. 5102 03:54:55,808 --> 03:55:00,379 THIS IS A BIRD THAT'S A 5103 03:55:00,379 --> 03:55:01,013 FISHERMAN. 5104 03:55:01,013 --> 03:55:02,381 ALAN, IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS 5105 03:55:02,381 --> 03:55:02,648 PLEASURE. 5106 03:55:02,648 --> 03:55:04,884 I'VE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL FROM 5107 03:55:04,884 --> 03:55:09,522 OUR LONG ASSOCIATION, AND I HOPE 5108 03:55:09,522 --> 03:55:11,590 THAT LEARNING PROCESS IS NOT 5109 03:55:11,590 --> 03:55:12,858 DONE, BY WHICH I MEAN, OF 5110 03:55:12,858 --> 03:55:15,060 COURSE, THAT WE SHOULD STAY IN 5111 03:55:15,060 --> 03:55:16,061 CONTACT SO WE CAN RECOMMEND 5112 03:55:16,061 --> 03:55:17,429 OTHER GOOD THINGS FOR ME TO READ 5113 03:55:17,429 --> 03:55:18,497 AND HELP ME CONTINUE MY 5114 03:55:18,497 --> 03:55:19,565 UNDERSTANDING OF VIRUSES AND HOW 5115 03:55:19,565 --> 03:55:19,832 THEY WORK. 5116 03:55:19,832 --> 03:55:30,142 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 5117 03:55:34,547 --> 03:55:35,815 I WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS IF 5118 03:55:35,815 --> 03:55:37,082 ANYONE THINKS THEY HAVE THEM, 5119 03:55:37,082 --> 03:55:38,818 BUT NOT ABOUT MLV. 5120 03:55:38,818 --> 03:55:41,787 >> I WANT TO SAY ABOUT XMRV 5121 03:55:41,787 --> 03:55:44,290 THAT, YES, I PRODUCED CLEARCUT 5122 03:55:44,290 --> 03:55:46,725 NEGATIVE DATA, BUT THE ANSWER TO 5123 03:55:46,725 --> 03:55:51,597 THE PUZZLE CAME FROM JOHN AND 5124 03:55:51,597 --> 03:55:51,797 RENEE. 5125 03:55:51,797 --> 03:55:54,533 THEY REALLY PUT IT TO REST IN A 5126 03:55:54,533 --> 03:55:56,535 WAY THAT SIMPLY FINDING NEGATIVE 5127 03:55:56,535 --> 03:55:57,403 DATA COULD NOT. 5128 03:55:57,403 --> 03:56:03,909 >> AND I WOULD POINT OUT THAT 5129 03:56:03,909 --> 03:56:04,910 ALAN'S RESPONSE SAYS SOMETHING 5130 03:56:04,910 --> 03:56:07,379 ELSE ABOUT HIM THAT I ALSO LIKE. 5131 03:56:07,379 --> 03:56:09,515 HE'S VERY GENEROUS WITH CREDIT 5132 03:56:09,515 --> 03:56:12,124 FOR OTHERS. THANK YOU. 5133 03:56:12,124 --> 03:56:14,060 >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER PROBABLY 5134 03:56:14,060 --> 03:56:17,497 NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION. 5135 03:56:17,497 --> 03:56:19,265 IT'S JOHN COFFIN, WHO HAS BEEN 5136 03:56:19,265 --> 03:56:22,101 AT THE FOREFRONT OF SO MANY 5137 03:56:22,101 --> 03:56:28,441 DIFFERENT AVENUES OF RETROVIRUS 5138 03:56:28,441 --> 03:56:29,542 RESEARCH THAT I WOULD NOT 5139 03:56:29,542 --> 03:56:32,245 ATTEMPT TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT 5140 03:56:32,245 --> 03:56:32,879 IT. 5141 03:56:32,879 --> 03:56:35,314 JUST ALWAYS BRINGS A WONDERFUL, 5142 03:56:35,314 --> 03:56:44,323 ENLIGHTENED PERSPECTIVE. 5143 03:56:44,323 --> 03:56:47,260 HE ALWAYS INCLUDES A WONDERFUL 5144 03:56:47,260 --> 03:56:48,294 EVOLUTION IN WHATEVER HE'S 5145 03:56:48,294 --> 03:56:49,495 THINKING ABOUT, AND I HAVE 5146 03:56:49,495 --> 03:56:50,930 CERTAINLY LEARNED MORE THAN I 5147 03:56:50,930 --> 03:56:52,498 COULD SAY FROM MY LONG 5148 03:56:52,498 --> 03:56:53,599 ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN. 5149 03:56:53,599 --> 03:56:54,834 SO I THINK I'LL JUST LEAVE IT 5150 03:56:54,834 --> 03:56:55,668 WITH THAT. 5151 03:56:55,668 --> 03:57:05,778 JOHN? 5152 03:57:11,050 --> 03:57:12,518 >> THANK YOU, ALAN. 5153 03:57:12,518 --> 03:57:13,586 THIS HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL EVENT, 5154 03:57:13,586 --> 03:57:14,554 I HAVE TO SAY. 5155 03:57:14,554 --> 03:57:16,689 THE STORY I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU, 5156 03:57:16,689 --> 03:57:18,591 I HOPE WILL SOMEWHAT CLOSE THE 5157 03:57:18,591 --> 03:57:20,726 CIRCLE BETWEEN WHAT JONATHAN 5158 03:57:20,726 --> 03:57:27,033 SAID EARLIER TODAY AND GOING ON 5159 03:57:27,033 --> 03:57:29,001 TO A DIFFERENT MODEL. 5160 03:57:29,001 --> 03:57:31,504 BEFORE I DO THAT -- AND SOME OF 5161 03:57:31,504 --> 03:57:32,838 YOU MAY RECOGNIZE THESE TWO GUYS 5162 03:57:32,838 --> 03:57:33,205 HERE. 5163 03:57:33,205 --> 03:57:34,206 SOME OF THE OLDER ONES AMONG 5164 03:57:34,206 --> 03:57:39,045 YOU. 5165 03:57:39,045 --> 03:57:41,047 BEFORE I DO THAT, I'VE GOT TO 5166 03:57:41,047 --> 03:57:51,591 FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADVANCE HERE. 5167 03:57:55,628 --> 03:57:58,230 WHEN I FIRST MET ALAN, 5168 03:57:58,230 --> 03:57:59,498 PRESUMABLY AT A COLD SPRING 5169 03:57:59,498 --> 03:58:01,867 HARBOR MEETING, AS THEY WERE 5170 03:58:01,867 --> 03:58:08,874 CALLED AT THE TIME, TUMOR VIRUS 5171 03:58:08,874 --> 03:58:09,508 MEETING. 5172 03:58:09,508 --> 03:58:11,811 BEFORE THAT, WE WERE ACTUALLY 5173 03:58:11,811 --> 03:58:13,846 CUSTOMER INS IN AN INTERESTING 5174 03:58:13,846 --> 03:58:16,882 WAY, IS THAT IS THAT OUR THESIS 5175 03:58:16,882 --> 03:58:21,220 MENTORS WERE RESPECTIVELY HARRY 5176 03:58:21,220 --> 03:58:24,724 RUBIN AND HOWARD TENEMAN. 5177 03:58:24,724 --> 03:58:27,493 THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW ABOUT THE 5178 03:58:27,493 --> 03:58:33,332 HISTORY OF THIS, HARRY AND 5179 03:58:33,332 --> 03:58:34,500 HOWARD WERE TOGETHER IN A LAB, 5180 03:58:34,500 --> 03:58:37,136 AND THEY DID THE SEMINAL 5181 03:58:37,136 --> 03:58:39,005 EXPERIMENT THAT ACTUALLY 5182 03:58:39,005 --> 03:58:42,475 REFERRED HOWARD TO DETERMINE 5183 03:58:42,475 --> 03:58:45,511 RETROVIRUS MUST REPLICATE BY A 5184 03:58:45,511 --> 03:58:47,246 STABLED CELLULAR INTERMEDIATE, 5185 03:58:47,246 --> 03:58:51,150 WHICH HE REFERRED TO AS THE PRO 5186 03:58:51,150 --> 03:58:51,550 VIRUS. 5187 03:58:51,550 --> 03:58:53,519 THEN HE INFERRED FROM THAT THE 5188 03:58:53,519 --> 03:58:55,688 PRO VIRUS HAD TO BE DNA, EVEN 5189 03:58:55,688 --> 03:58:56,622 THOUGH IT WAS WELL-KNOWN ALREADY 5190 03:58:56,622 --> 03:58:58,691 EVEN AT THE TIME, THIS WAS LATE 5191 03:58:58,691 --> 03:59:01,627 '50s AND EARLY '60s, THAT THE 5192 03:59:01,627 --> 03:59:02,862 VIRUS GENOME WAS RNA. 5193 03:59:02,862 --> 03:59:04,697 THERE WAS NO DNA IN THE VIRUS. 5194 03:59:04,697 --> 03:59:05,231 IT HAD ALREADY BEEN WELL 5195 03:59:05,231 --> 03:59:09,835 ESTABLISHED. 5196 03:59:09,835 --> 03:59:11,904 BUT THAT KIND OF INFERENCE DID 5197 03:59:11,904 --> 03:59:14,473 NOT GO SIT WELL WITH HARRY, WHO 5198 03:59:14,473 --> 03:59:16,609 WAS NOT AN INFERENTIAL 5199 03:59:16,609 --> 03:59:16,876 SCIENTIST. 5200 03:59:16,876 --> 03:59:21,580 HE HAD TO SEE SOLID DATA 5201 03:59:21,580 --> 03:59:23,149 INCONTROVERTIBLE BEFORE HE WOULD 5202 03:59:23,149 --> 03:59:23,783 BELIEVE ANYTHING. 5203 03:59:23,783 --> 03:59:25,284 THEY HAD A FAMOUS FEUD ABOUT 5204 03:59:25,284 --> 03:59:27,920 THIS FOR QUITE A NUMBER OF YEARS 5205 03:59:27,920 --> 03:59:29,989 UNTIL -- THAT WAS UNTIL THERE 5206 03:59:29,989 --> 03:59:33,459 WAS IN 1970, THERE WAS A CANCER 5207 03:59:33,459 --> 03:59:37,396 CONGRESS IN HOUSTON, IF I 5208 03:59:37,396 --> 03:59:39,699 REMEMBER CORRECTLY, AND HOWARD 5209 03:59:39,699 --> 03:59:42,868 PRESEN 5210 03:59:42,868 --> 03:59:45,671 PRESENTED THE DISCOVERY REVERSE 5211 03:59:45,671 --> 03:59:46,906 TRANSCRIPTICS AND ALL THE 5212 03:59:46,906 --> 03:59:48,474 EVIDENCE FOR THAT IN A SESSION 5213 03:59:48,474 --> 03:59:50,876 AT THE MEETING WHERE HARRY WAS 5214 03:59:50,876 --> 03:59:51,977 THE CHAIR. 5215 03:59:51,977 --> 03:59:54,513 I REMEMBER HIM COMING BACK ALL 5216 03:59:54,513 --> 03:59:55,614 GLOWING BECAUSE HARRY KEPT 5217 03:59:55,614 --> 03:59:57,650 SAYING, I DON'T BELIEVE IT, I 5218 03:59:57,650 --> 03:59:58,751 DON'T BELIEVE IT, AND HOWARD 5219 03:59:58,751 --> 04:00:00,519 WOULD SAY THIS IS THE DATA, AND 5220 04:00:00,519 --> 04:00:03,155 SURE ENOUGH, IT WAS THE DATA. 5221 04:00:03,155 --> 04:00:04,557 SURE ENOUGH, THE REST IS 5222 04:00:04,557 --> 04:00:05,024 HISTORY. 5223 04:00:05,024 --> 04:00:06,926 IN ANY CASE, THEY NEVER DID 5224 04:00:06,926 --> 04:00:07,660 SPEAK TO EACH OTHER AGAIN AS FAR 5225 04:00:07,660 --> 04:00:17,837 AS I KNOW. 5226 04:00:19,105 --> 04:00:20,172 >> HARRY LEFT THE FIELD. 5227 04:00:20,172 --> 04:00:22,108 >> EXACTLY. 5228 04:00:22,108 --> 04:00:24,210 HE GOT MUCH MORE INTO CELL 5229 04:00:24,210 --> 04:00:26,212 BIOLOGY KINDS OF THINGS. 5230 04:00:26,212 --> 04:00:32,051 BUT ALAN AT COLD SPRING HARBOR 5231 04:00:32,051 --> 04:00:34,720 WAS HARDLY ALAN'S FIRST COLD 5232 04:00:34,720 --> 04:00:36,555 SPRING HARBOR EXPERIENCE, AND I 5233 04:00:36,555 --> 04:00:38,090 HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE OF BEING 5234 04:00:38,090 --> 04:00:40,459 ABLE TO CONTACT THE COLD SPRING 5235 04:00:40,459 --> 04:00:41,727 HARBOR PHOTOGRAPHER, WHO WE ALL 5236 04:00:41,727 --> 04:00:44,396 KNOW ACTUALLY FROM THE MEETING, 5237 04:00:44,396 --> 04:00:47,733 AND THE ARCHIVIST WHO MAINTAINS 5238 04:00:47,733 --> 04:00:51,070 A VERY GOOD ARCHIVE OF PAST 5239 04:00:51,070 --> 04:00:53,239 MEETINGS, AND ASKED THEM TO FIND 5240 04:00:53,239 --> 04:00:55,508 ME PICTURES OF ALAN REIN, AND 5241 04:00:55,508 --> 04:00:57,276 THEY SAID, WELL, WE'VE GOT ONE 5242 04:00:57,276 --> 04:01:01,280 FROM 1961. 5243 04:01:01,280 --> 04:01:02,815 I DON'T KNOW IF ALAN HIMSELF HAS 5244 04:01:02,815 --> 04:01:04,850 A COPY OF THIS. 5245 04:01:04,850 --> 04:01:09,288 SO THAT WAS ALAN, AS I THINK 5246 04:01:09,288 --> 04:01:10,823 ABOUT A SENIOR IN COLLEGE DOING 5247 04:01:10,823 --> 04:01:13,926 A PROJECT AT COLD SPRING HARBOR. 5248 04:01:13,926 --> 04:01:15,995 AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE 5249 04:01:15,995 --> 04:01:17,062 PARAPHERNALIA AROUND THERE, IT 5250 04:01:17,062 --> 04:01:18,764 WAS A FLY PROJECT HE WAS WORKING 5251 04:01:18,764 --> 04:01:18,964 ON. 5252 04:01:18,964 --> 04:01:20,332 HE COULD TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT 5253 04:01:20,332 --> 04:01:30,676 PROBABLY IF YOU ASK. 5254 04:01:30,943 --> 04:01:32,645 ACTUALLY, I GOT ABOUT 60 OR SO 5255 04:01:32,645 --> 04:01:34,880 PICTURES FROM THEM, WHICH I 5256 04:01:34,880 --> 04:01:37,716 CALLED OUT A FEW TO SHARE WITH 5257 04:01:37,716 --> 04:01:37,917 YOU. 5258 04:01:37,917 --> 04:01:39,351 THIS ACTUALLY WAS A MEETING THAT 5259 04:01:39,351 --> 04:01:42,254 I ORGANIZED, ALONG WITH IRVIN 5260 04:01:42,254 --> 04:01:44,223 CHEN IN THE MIDDLE, AND THIS WAS 5261 04:01:44,223 --> 04:01:45,124 A PICTURE OF THE SESSION CHAIRS 5262 04:01:45,124 --> 04:01:47,393 AT THE MEETING, AND ALAN IS IN 5263 04:01:47,393 --> 04:01:48,627 THE BACTERIO. 5264 04:01:48,627 --> 04:01:49,829 TWO OF THE PEOPLE YOU MIGHT 5265 04:01:49,829 --> 04:01:50,896 RECOGNIZE, NANCY HOPKINS OVER 5266 04:01:50,896 --> 04:01:53,032 THERE ON THE RIGHT THERE. 5267 04:01:53,032 --> 04:01:55,768 BY THE WAY, WHO WILL BE GIVING A 5268 04:01:55,768 --> 04:01:58,170 TALK IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS -- I 5269 04:01:58,170 --> 04:02:01,106 THINK IN BETHESDA ACTUALLY -- 5270 04:02:01,106 --> 04:02:03,309 BUT IT'S VERY WORTH TUNING INTO 5271 04:02:03,309 --> 04:02:05,544 TO HEAR WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY. 5272 04:02:05,544 --> 04:02:07,112 I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE. 5273 04:02:07,112 --> 04:02:08,914 DAVID HO IS THERE, A NUMBER OF 5274 04:02:08,914 --> 04:02:12,751 PEOPLE YOU KNOW, DON BLAIR, 5275 04:02:12,751 --> 04:02:15,254 KAREN IS THERE. 5276 04:02:15,254 --> 04:02:16,689 MUCH YOUNGER, THIS WAS 1991, 5277 04:02:16,689 --> 04:02:20,993 THIS MEETING. 5278 04:02:20,993 --> 04:02:25,030 AND HERE'S ANOTHER MEETING. 5279 04:02:25,030 --> 04:02:35,507 HERE'S ALAN WITH TAYE ZHANG. 5280 04:02:40,746 --> 04:02:41,881 OH, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 5281 04:02:41,881 --> 04:02:44,350 THIS WAS SAID TO ME AS BEING 5282 04:02:44,350 --> 04:02:45,684 ALAN, BUT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY 5283 04:02:45,684 --> 04:02:45,885 RIGHT. 5284 04:02:45,885 --> 04:02:49,955 THAT'S ALAN. 5285 04:02:49,955 --> 04:02:52,458 AND WITH DAVID BALTIMORE AND ANN 5286 04:02:52,458 --> 04:02:54,326 SKULKA AT THE 40th ANNIVERSARY 5287 04:02:54,326 --> 04:02:56,795 OF REVERSE TRANSCRIPTICS, SO IT 5288 04:02:56,795 --> 04:02:58,697 WOULD HAVE BEEN 2010. 5289 04:02:58,697 --> 04:03:00,733 AND HERE HE IS AT POSTER 5290 04:03:00,733 --> 04:03:02,801 SESSIONS AT COLD SPRING HARBOR 5291 04:03:02,801 --> 04:03:04,536 LOOKING EITHER SKEPTICAL, AS HE 5292 04:03:04,536 --> 04:03:06,505 SOMETIMES DOES, OR ENJOYING A 5293 04:03:06,505 --> 04:03:07,006 GOOD JOKE. 5294 04:03:07,006 --> 04:03:09,341 THEN PROBABLY IN THE MIDDLE OF 5295 04:03:09,341 --> 04:03:11,043 THE ROOM OUTSIDE AWAY FROM THE 5296 04:03:11,043 --> 04:03:11,744 POSTERS. 5297 04:03:11,744 --> 04:03:13,712 AND FINALLY, ALAN ALWAYS DOES 5298 04:03:13,712 --> 04:03:15,447 TEND TO STAND OUT IN A CROWD A 5299 04:03:15,447 --> 04:03:15,948 LITTLE BIT. 5300 04:03:15,948 --> 04:03:18,150 YOU'RE VERY EASY TO SPOT IN THIS 5301 04:03:18,150 --> 04:03:19,885 PICTURE, HARDER TO SPOT ARE THE 5302 04:03:19,885 --> 04:03:22,488 THREE GUYS IN THE FRONT THERE 5303 04:03:22,488 --> 04:03:27,393 THAT YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE. 5304 04:03:27,393 --> 04:03:31,096 >> THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE 5305 04:03:31,096 --> 04:03:36,902 SILVER HAIR? 5306 04:03:36,902 --> 04:03:43,409 >> THAT'S YOUNG BURTOWSKY, A 5307 04:03:43,409 --> 04:03:45,311 STAPLE AT COLD SPRING HARBOR. 5308 04:03:45,311 --> 04:03:47,179 AT THE COCKTAIL PARTY, WE ALWAYS 5309 04:03:47,179 --> 04:03:48,847 TALK TO HIM ACTUALLY. 5310 04:03:48,847 --> 04:03:51,417 AND THIS IS THANKS TO THE COLD 5311 04:03:51,417 --> 04:03:52,718 SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY PEOPLE 5312 04:03:52,718 --> 04:03:54,420 WHO PROVIDED THESE PICTURES. 5313 04:03:54,420 --> 04:03:56,288 THEY HAVE A MARVELOUS COLLECTION 5314 04:03:56,288 --> 04:03:57,756 OF PICTURES FROM THESE MEETINGS. 5315 04:03:57,756 --> 04:03:59,425 BACK TO THE STORY. 5316 04:03:59,425 --> 04:04:02,361 WE ALL KNOW NOW ABOUT ENDOGENOUS 5317 04:04:02,361 --> 04:04:03,762 RETROVIRUSES, AND JONATHAN GAVE 5318 04:04:03,762 --> 04:04:06,699 A LOVELY INTRODUCTION AT THE 5319 04:04:06,699 --> 04:04:06,966 BEGINNING. 5320 04:04:06,966 --> 04:04:09,535 THIS IS STILL NOW A VERY LARGE 5321 04:04:09,535 --> 04:04:10,669 AREA OF STUDY NOW. 5322 04:04:10,669 --> 04:04:14,473 WHAT THESE VIRUSES HAVE DONE IN 5323 04:04:14,473 --> 04:04:18,110 TERMS OF THEIR EFFECTS ON THE 5324 04:04:18,110 --> 04:04:19,378 EVOLUTION AND GENE EXPRESSION 5325 04:04:19,378 --> 04:04:21,880 AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER ASPECTS 5326 04:04:21,880 --> 04:04:28,787 OF US BEING US, THERE IS, AS I 5327 04:04:28,787 --> 04:04:31,190 SAY, ONE OF THE REMARKABLE 5328 04:04:31,190 --> 04:04:33,525 FINDINGS OF THE HUMAN GENOME 5329 04:04:33,525 --> 04:04:35,127 PROJECT IS THERE'S MORE VIRUSES 5330 04:04:35,127 --> 04:04:37,363 IN US THAN US IN US. 5331 04:04:37,363 --> 04:04:40,132 WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE 80,000 5332 04:04:40,132 --> 04:04:42,868 ENDOGENOUS PRO VIRUSES COMPARED 5333 04:04:42,868 --> 04:04:44,403 TO LIKE 20,000 GENES. 5334 04:04:44,403 --> 04:04:45,971 THESE ARE KNOWN TO DO LOTS OF 5335 04:04:45,971 --> 04:04:50,075 THINGS, LIKE BRINGING IN NEW 5336 04:04:50,075 --> 04:04:53,312 GENES, MODIFYING GENE 5337 04:04:53,312 --> 04:04:53,879 EXPRESSION. 5338 04:04:53,879 --> 04:04:55,748 THEY CAN BECOME PARTS OF A LONG 5339 04:04:55,748 --> 04:04:58,684 LINE OF CODING RNAs AND THINGS 5340 04:04:58,684 --> 04:05:01,820 LIKE THAT. 5341 04:05:01,820 --> 04:05:07,993 IN CASE OF MICE THEY CAN 5342 04:05:07,993 --> 04:05:09,028 REPLICATE AND CAUSE DISEASE, 5343 04:05:09,028 --> 04:05:10,696 WHICH IS NOT TRUE IN HUMANS, 5344 04:05:10,696 --> 04:05:11,830 DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF MANY 5345 04:05:11,830 --> 04:05:13,432 PEOPLE TO TRY TO SHOW THAT IT 5346 04:05:13,432 --> 04:05:13,599 IS. 5347 04:05:13,599 --> 04:05:15,067 AND TO OUR INTEREST, THEY 5348 04:05:15,067 --> 04:05:18,270 PROVIDE A FOSSIL RECORD OF THE 5349 04:05:18,270 --> 04:05:19,204 HOST-VIRUS INTERACTION GOING 5350 04:05:19,204 --> 04:05:21,340 BACK MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS. 5351 04:05:21,340 --> 04:05:22,441 JONATHAN WAS TALKING ABOUT 47 5352 04:05:22,441 --> 04:05:24,543 MILLION, I THINK, IN HIS. 5353 04:05:24,543 --> 04:05:25,744 WE DON'T BACK QUITE THAT FAR 5354 04:05:25,744 --> 04:05:27,413 WITH THE ONES WE'RE LOOKING AT, 5355 04:05:27,413 --> 04:05:29,114 BUT WE GO BACK A LONG WAYS. 5356 04:05:29,114 --> 04:05:32,718 AND I THINK THAT ONE OF THE MOST 5357 04:05:32,718 --> 04:05:38,924 OVERLOOKED THINGS IS BECOMING, 5358 04:05:38,924 --> 04:05:41,193 THANKS TO JONATHAN AND THE WORK 5359 04:05:41,193 --> 04:05:43,996 OF MANY OTHERS, UNDERSTAND IS 5360 04:05:43,996 --> 04:05:46,265 PROTECTION FROM INFECTION BY 5361 04:05:46,265 --> 04:05:49,735 RELATED EXOGENOUS VIRUSES. 5362 04:05:49,735 --> 04:05:53,305 I WOULD ARGUE THAT, PROBABLY THE 5363 04:05:53,305 --> 04:05:55,674 REASON THESE VIRUSES HAVE GONE 5364 04:05:55,674 --> 04:05:58,077 EXTINCT IS LARGELY DUE TO THIS 5365 04:05:58,077 --> 04:05:58,811 HAPPENING. 5366 04:05:58,811 --> 04:06:03,382 SOONER OR LATER A PRO VIRUS GETS 5367 04:06:03,382 --> 04:06:05,017 INTEGRATED INTO THE GERMLINE OF 5368 04:06:05,017 --> 04:06:07,519 THE HOST, AND IT BLOCKS THE 5369 04:06:07,519 --> 04:06:09,455 INTERACTION OF THE INCOMING 5370 04:06:09,455 --> 04:06:10,856 VIRUS IN SOME IMPORTANT HOST 5371 04:06:10,856 --> 04:06:13,192 CELL MACHINERY OR DOES SOMETHING 5372 04:06:13,192 --> 04:06:15,594 ELSE OF INTEREST THAT PREVENTS 5373 04:06:15,594 --> 04:06:17,463 INJECTION OF THAT HOST BY THE 5374 04:06:17,463 --> 04:06:18,130 SAME VIRUS FROM OUTSIDE. 5375 04:06:18,130 --> 04:06:20,466 IN FACT, IN LOOKING AT MLV SOME 5376 04:06:20,466 --> 04:06:21,900 YEARS AGO, WE PUBLISHED THAT YOU 5377 04:06:21,900 --> 04:06:23,402 COULD ACTUALLY SEE THIS BACK AND 5378 04:06:23,402 --> 04:06:26,538 FORTH AT THE LEVEL RECEPTOR 5379 04:06:26,538 --> 04:06:28,474 REACTION, LOOKING AT ENDOGENOUS 5380 04:06:28,474 --> 04:06:29,241 MLVs. 5381 04:06:29,241 --> 04:06:30,943 I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THAT 5382 04:06:30,943 --> 04:06:31,143 STORY. 5383 04:06:31,143 --> 04:06:32,611 I WANT TO GO INTO A RATHER 5384 04:06:32,611 --> 04:06:34,480 DIFFERENT STORY. 5385 04:06:34,480 --> 04:06:38,350 THIS JUST SHOWS A VERY, VERY 5386 04:06:38,350 --> 04:06:44,890 PARTIAL TREE, IF YOU LIKE, 5387 04:06:44,890 --> 04:06:46,825 PHILOGENY OF ENDOGENOUS 5388 04:06:46,825 --> 04:06:47,960 RETROVIRUSES COMPARED TO THE 5389 04:06:47,960 --> 04:06:49,061 RELATED EXOGENOUS. 5390 04:06:49,061 --> 04:06:51,096 YOU CAN SEE THE X IS MARKED 5391 04:06:51,096 --> 04:06:52,264 EXOGENOUS VIRUSES. 5392 04:06:52,264 --> 04:06:54,333 THE BLUE SQUARES MARK ONES THAT 5393 04:06:54,333 --> 04:06:56,668 ARE FOUND IN HUMANS, ONLY A VERY 5394 04:06:56,668 --> 04:06:57,903 SMALL FRACTION OF THE 80,000 OR 5395 04:06:57,903 --> 04:06:59,204 SO THAT WE CARRY. 5396 04:06:59,204 --> 04:07:00,572 AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE JUST HAVE 5397 04:07:00,572 --> 04:07:02,841 BEEN LOTS AND LOTS OF THESE. 5398 04:07:02,841 --> 04:07:04,610 EACH OF THESE, WE CONSIDER, 5399 04:07:04,610 --> 04:07:10,482 REPRESENTS A WAVE OF INJECTION 5400 04:07:10,482 --> 04:07:14,853 THAT A PANZOOTIC INFECTION THAT 5401 04:07:14,853 --> 04:07:16,955 IT CAME AND THEN WENT EXTINCT 5402 04:07:16,955 --> 04:07:20,058 AND IS LEFT TO US ONLY BY THIS 5403 04:07:20,058 --> 04:07:22,828 REMARKABLE FOSSIL RECORD. 5404 04:07:22,828 --> 04:07:25,230 A FAIR AMOUNT OF THE WORK OF MY 5405 04:07:25,230 --> 04:07:26,798 LABORATORY UP IN BOSTON IS 5406 04:07:26,798 --> 04:07:28,600 DEVOTED TO TRY TO INTERPRET 5407 04:07:28,600 --> 04:07:28,834 THIS. 5408 04:07:28,834 --> 04:07:31,170 I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 5409 04:07:31,170 --> 04:07:32,437 PARTICULARLY ONE PRO VIRUS AT 5410 04:07:32,437 --> 04:07:34,840 ONE LOCATION, THAT'S IN A GROUP 5411 04:07:34,840 --> 04:07:42,447 OF VIRUSES CALLED HERV-K 5412 04:07:42,447 --> 04:07:43,081 (HML-2). 5413 04:07:43,081 --> 04:07:44,516 IT'S THE MOST RECENTLY ACQUIRED 5414 04:07:44,516 --> 04:07:46,418 AND THE MOST RECENTLY EXTINCT 5415 04:07:46,418 --> 04:07:46,652 VIRUS. 5416 04:07:46,652 --> 04:07:49,021 THESE VIRUSES WERE STILL BEING 5417 04:07:49,021 --> 04:07:50,722 INTRODUCED INTO THE HUMAN GENOME 5418 04:07:50,722 --> 04:07:52,257 UP UNTIL MAYBE AS LITTLE AS HALF 5419 04:07:52,257 --> 04:07:53,292 A MILLION YEARS AGO. 5420 04:07:53,292 --> 04:07:54,760 AS FAR AS WE COULD TELL, THERE 5421 04:07:54,760 --> 04:07:56,795 WERE NO MORE INTRODUCTIONS SINCE 5422 04:07:56,795 --> 04:07:57,095 THEN. 5423 04:07:57,095 --> 04:07:59,598 AS I SAID AGAIN, THEY'VE ALL 5424 04:07:59,598 --> 04:08:08,907 GONE EXTINCT. 5425 04:08:08,907 --> 04:08:10,809 SO THERE ARE ABOUT 100 PRO 5426 04:08:10,809 --> 04:08:11,210 VIRUSES. 5427 04:08:11,210 --> 04:08:13,879 EACH OF US CARRIES ABOUT 1 HOW 5428 04:08:13,879 --> 04:08:15,380 MANY OF THESE PROVIRUSES, MOST 5429 04:08:15,380 --> 04:08:16,949 OF THEM IDENTICAL FROM ONE OF US 5430 04:08:16,949 --> 04:08:19,184 TO ANOTHER, AT LEAST IN THEIR 5431 04:08:19,184 --> 04:08:19,451 LOCATION. 5432 04:08:19,451 --> 04:08:21,019 THERE ARE A FEW THAT ARE 5433 04:08:21,019 --> 04:08:21,820 POLYMORPHIC IN LOCATION. 5434 04:08:21,820 --> 04:08:24,356 THIS IS THE ONLY GROUP OF 5435 04:08:24,356 --> 04:08:26,124 ENDOGENOUS VIRUSES IN HUMANS, AS 5436 04:08:26,124 --> 04:08:28,360 FAR AS WE KNOW, THAT HAS 5437 04:08:28,360 --> 04:08:29,895 POLYMORPHIC INSERTION OF THAT 5438 04:08:29,895 --> 04:08:30,095 SORT. 5439 04:08:30,095 --> 04:08:31,563 I HAVE A FEW THAT YOU MIGHT NOT 5440 04:08:31,563 --> 04:08:33,031 HAVE, AND EACH OF YOU MAY HAVE A 5441 04:08:33,031 --> 04:08:34,099 FEW THAT I DON'T HAVE. 5442 04:08:34,099 --> 04:08:36,034 AS YOU CAN SEE FROM LOOKING AT 5443 04:08:36,034 --> 04:08:38,437 THESE, THESE ARE JUST GENOME 5444 04:08:38,437 --> 04:08:45,177 MAPS REFERRED, MANY OF THEM BY 5445 04:08:45,177 --> 04:08:47,112 PULLING THEM OFF A HUMAN GENOME 5446 04:08:47,112 --> 04:08:48,146 SEQUENCE EARLY ON. 5447 04:08:48,146 --> 04:08:51,750 MANY OF THEM ARE DEFECTIVE. 5448 04:08:51,750 --> 04:08:53,485 ALL OF THEM ARE DEFECTIVE IN ONE 5449 04:08:53,485 --> 04:08:56,755 WAY OR ANOTHER, MANY OF THESE BY 5450 04:08:56,755 --> 04:08:59,324 DELETIONS AND STOP CODON 5451 04:08:59,324 --> 04:09:01,193 INSERTIONS AND SO ON AND SO 5452 04:09:01,193 --> 04:09:01,460 FORTH. 5453 04:09:01,460 --> 04:09:03,195 I WANT TO FOE UBIQUITOUS YOUR 5454 04:09:03,195 --> 04:09:04,529 ATTENTION TO TWO OF THESE. 5455 04:09:04,529 --> 04:09:06,498 THE ONE I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN 5456 04:09:06,498 --> 04:09:11,870 IS THE ONE AT CHROMOSOME 3Q12.3. 5457 04:09:11,870 --> 04:09:15,207 WE IDENTIFY THESE BY THEIR 5458 04:09:15,207 --> 04:09:15,974 CHROMOSOMAL BAND POSITION. 5459 04:09:15,974 --> 04:09:17,809 THERE'S PRETTY MUCH ONLY ONE PER 5460 04:09:17,809 --> 04:09:18,944 BAND, MAYBE TWO OR THREE. 5461 04:09:18,944 --> 04:09:22,447 IN FACT, WE FIND THAT IN MUCH 5462 04:09:22,447 --> 04:09:23,749 BETTER WAYS THAN ANY OF THE 5463 04:09:23,749 --> 04:09:25,350 PREVIOUS NOMENCLATURES. 5464 04:09:25,350 --> 04:09:27,686 WE'RE NOT QUITE ALONE IN THIS, A 5465 04:09:27,686 --> 04:09:30,088 LOT OF PEOPLE PICK IT UP. 5466 04:09:30,088 --> 04:09:31,957 BUT WE STILL USE OLD 5467 04:09:31,957 --> 04:09:32,291 NOMENCLATURES. 5468 04:09:32,291 --> 04:09:33,525 IF YOU READ A PAPER ON THIS 5469 04:09:33,525 --> 04:09:35,060 SUBJECT, YOU NEED A TRANSLATOR 5470 04:09:35,060 --> 04:09:35,761 WITH YOU. 5471 04:09:35,761 --> 04:09:37,829 FORTUNATELY, THIS PAPER ACTUALLY 5472 04:09:37,829 --> 04:09:39,031 SERVES AS THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE 5473 04:09:39,031 --> 04:09:40,465 SYNONYMS NEXT TO ALL OF THESE. 5474 04:09:40,465 --> 04:09:41,800 AND THE OTHER PROVIRUS I'M GOING 5475 04:09:41,800 --> 04:09:46,371 TO MENTION IS THIS ONE AT 5476 04:09:46,371 --> 04:09:47,706 22Q11.23. 5477 04:09:47,706 --> 04:09:49,041 NOW, YOU'LL NOTE I HAVE THESE IN 5478 04:09:49,041 --> 04:09:50,909 DIFFERENT COLORS, AND THAT'S 5479 04:09:50,909 --> 04:09:52,611 BECAUSE, IF YOU LOOK AT MY LAST 5480 04:09:52,611 --> 04:09:55,280 POINT THERE, THIS GROUP OF 5481 04:09:55,280 --> 04:10:01,653 VIRUSES, HERV-K (HML-2) GROUP 5482 04:10:01,653 --> 04:10:04,656 CAN BE SUBDIVIDED INTO THREE 5483 04:10:04,656 --> 04:10:13,965 TAXA, LTRSA, 5B, AND 5HS. 5484 04:10:13,965 --> 04:10:16,868 THE OTHER TWO TAXA, THEY'RE 5485 04:10:16,868 --> 04:10:18,804 KNOWN INTEGRATIONS FOR MORE THAN 5486 04:10:18,804 --> 04:10:20,339 THE LAST 5 MILLION YEARS HAVE 5487 04:10:20,339 --> 04:10:21,606 FOUND THEIR WAY INTO THE 5488 04:10:21,606 --> 04:10:21,873 GERMLINE. 5489 04:10:21,873 --> 04:10:23,442 IF YOU LOOK AT THE THREE ON THE 5490 04:10:23,442 --> 04:10:25,811 LEFT, THE ONES IN BLUE NOW JUST 5491 04:10:25,811 --> 04:10:28,613 FOR THE GAG GENE, BUT ANY OTHER 5492 04:10:28,613 --> 04:10:30,816 TREE WOULD LOOK THE SAME. 5493 04:10:30,816 --> 04:10:36,254 THE ONES IN BLUE ARE THE MOST 5494 04:10:36,254 --> 04:10:37,723 RECENT, AS YOU CAN TELL IN THE 5495 04:10:37,723 --> 04:10:39,458 TERMINAL, THE BRANCH ON THESE, 5496 04:10:39,458 --> 04:10:41,426 BRANCH LENGTHS ON THESE IS MORE 5497 04:10:41,426 --> 04:10:42,761 OR LESS PROPORTIONAL TO THE AGE 5498 04:10:42,761 --> 04:10:45,263 OF THE PROVIRUS, AND THESE GO 5499 04:10:45,263 --> 04:10:48,133 BACK MANY MILLIONS, 25 OR MORE 5500 04:10:48,133 --> 04:10:51,303 MILLION YEARS. 5501 04:10:51,303 --> 04:10:53,438 THE 5B PROVIRUSES OR THE OTHER 5502 04:10:53,438 --> 04:10:55,907 I'LL CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO IN 5503 04:10:55,907 --> 04:10:58,710 PINK, AND THEY ARE -- THEY 5504 04:10:58,710 --> 04:11:00,345 APPEAR TO BE ANCESTRAL TO THE 5505 04:11:00,345 --> 04:11:03,348 OTHER TWO GROUPS. THE 5A I'M 5506 04:11:03,348 --> 04:11:04,750 NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT DOWN AT 5507 04:11:04,750 --> 04:11:09,121 THE BOTTOM, THE GREEN ONES. 5508 04:11:09,121 --> 04:11:13,492 NOW, ALL OF THESE, I SAID, ARE 5509 04:11:13,492 --> 04:11:13,759 DEFECTIVE. 5510 04:11:13,759 --> 04:11:17,062 THEY ALL HAVE VARIOUS KINDS OF 5511 04:11:17,062 --> 04:11:17,963 DELETIONS. 5512 04:11:17,963 --> 04:11:22,501 PAUL'S LAB AND ALSO TERRY 5513 04:11:22,501 --> 04:11:24,369 HINMAN'S LAB IN FRANCE, HAD THE 5514 04:11:24,369 --> 04:11:26,104 ORIGINAL INSIGHT THE VIRUS THAT 5515 04:11:26,104 --> 04:11:27,672 GAVE RISE TO THE RECENT ONES IS 5516 04:11:27,672 --> 04:11:29,574 PRETTY MUCH ESSENTIALLY THE 5517 04:11:29,574 --> 04:11:31,576 SAME, AND MOST OF THESE 5518 04:11:31,576 --> 04:11:33,478 MUTATIONS HAVE ARISEN IN THE 5519 04:11:33,478 --> 04:11:34,980 MANY MILLIONS OF YEARS FOR THE 5520 04:11:34,980 --> 04:11:37,315 MOST PART SINCE THEY WERE 5521 04:11:37,315 --> 04:11:38,183 INTEGRATED. 5522 04:11:38,183 --> 04:11:40,952 THEREFORE, THE CONSENSUS 5523 04:11:40,952 --> 04:11:42,888 SEQUENCE BETWEEN ALL OF THOSE 5524 04:11:42,888 --> 04:11:43,722 SHOULD REPRESENT SOMETHING CLOSE 5525 04:11:43,722 --> 04:11:44,456 TO THE ORIGINAL VIRUS. 5526 04:11:44,456 --> 04:11:46,892 SO THEY CREATED THIS VIRUS 5527 04:11:46,892 --> 04:11:53,432 CALLED KCON, WHICH I'LL USE A 5528 04:11:53,432 --> 04:11:54,833 LOT, WHICH WAS DONE BY TAKING 5529 04:11:54,833 --> 04:11:57,169 THE CONSENSUS OF ALL OF THE 5530 04:11:57,169 --> 04:11:59,671 SEQUENCES SHOWN UP AT THE TOP 5531 04:11:59,671 --> 04:12:02,207 AND PUT THAT ON A NON-ROOTED 5532 04:12:02,207 --> 04:12:03,675 TREE, YOU CAN SEE THAT SITS MORE 5533 04:12:03,675 --> 04:12:05,610 OR LESS AT THE CENTER, WHICH IS 5534 04:12:05,610 --> 04:12:16,154 WHERE YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE. 5535 04:12:16,721 --> 04:12:18,123 THAT ACTUALLY CREATES AN 5536 04:12:18,123 --> 04:12:18,623 INFECTIOUS VIRUS. 5537 04:12:18,623 --> 04:12:21,860 IF YOU JUST REFLECT THE GAG OR 5538 04:12:21,860 --> 04:12:26,198 GAG GENES, YOU GET THIS NICE 5539 04:12:26,198 --> 04:12:27,399 VIRUS LIKE PARTICLES. 5540 04:12:27,399 --> 04:12:29,534 SO THAT ACTUALLY HAS BEEN 5541 04:12:29,534 --> 04:12:31,770 EXTREMELY USEFUL TO US FOR THE 5542 04:12:31,770 --> 04:12:32,137 EXPERIMENTATION. 5543 04:12:32,137 --> 04:12:36,541 I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU. 5544 04:12:36,541 --> 04:12:39,478 YOU CAN AGE THE INSERTION OF 5545 04:12:39,478 --> 04:12:41,847 ENDOGENOUS PROVIRUS BY LOOKING 5546 04:12:41,847 --> 04:12:46,451 AT PHILOGENETIC DISTRIBUTION FOR 5547 04:12:46,451 --> 04:12:48,286 THE ONES IT'S IN, OR ONES THAT 5548 04:12:48,286 --> 04:12:49,688 ARE OLD ENOUGH TO BE IN THE 5549 04:12:49,688 --> 04:12:49,921 SPECIES. 5550 04:12:49,921 --> 04:12:52,157 THESE TWO PROVIRUSES, AS YOU CAN 5551 04:12:52,157 --> 04:12:56,194 SEE, ARE ALSO FOUND IN 5552 04:12:56,194 --> 04:12:59,397 CHIMPANZEES, AND IN PARTICULAR 5553 04:12:59,397 --> 04:13:04,402 IN GORILLAS, BUT NOT IN 5554 04:13:04,402 --> 04:13:04,736 ORANGUTANS. 5555 04:13:04,736 --> 04:13:06,571 THAT DATES THE COMMON ANCESTOR 5556 04:13:06,571 --> 04:13:08,640 AND PROBABLY ALMOST CERTAINLY 5557 04:13:08,640 --> 04:13:10,675 THE INTEGRATION GAVE RISE TO 5558 04:13:10,675 --> 04:13:12,277 THIS, BACK INTO SOME COMMON 5559 04:13:12,277 --> 04:13:15,280 ANCESTOR OF HUMANS AND GORILLAS. 5560 04:13:15,280 --> 04:13:17,649 THAT IS ON THE ORDER OF 8 TO 12 5561 04:13:17,649 --> 04:13:19,184 MILLION YEARS AGO. 5562 04:13:19,184 --> 04:13:21,620 WE'LL SEE -- IN ROUND NUMBERS, 5563 04:13:21,620 --> 04:13:23,588 WE'LL SAY 10 MILLION YEARS AGO. 5564 04:13:23,588 --> 04:13:24,389 THESE ARE ABOUT 10 MILLION YEARS 5565 04:13:24,389 --> 04:13:31,997 OLD. 5566 04:13:31,997 --> 04:13:38,169 THE 3Q 12.3 HAS AN INTERESTING 5567 04:13:38,169 --> 04:13:38,470 PROPERTIES. 5568 04:13:38,470 --> 04:13:39,771 THE STRUCTURE OF THE VIRUS, THE 5569 04:13:39,771 --> 04:13:41,239 GAG GENE IS COMPLETELY INTACT. 5570 04:13:41,239 --> 04:13:42,707 IT'S BEEN PRESERVED INTACT FOR 5571 04:13:42,707 --> 04:13:45,443 10 MILLION YEARS SITTING IN THE 5572 04:13:45,443 --> 04:13:45,944 GENOME. 5573 04:13:45,944 --> 04:13:47,045 HOWEVER, IT WAS DERIVED -- IF 5574 04:13:47,045 --> 04:13:49,447 YOU LOOK AT THAT, THERE WAS A 5575 04:13:49,447 --> 04:13:50,815 RECOMBINATION EVENT THAT 5576 04:13:50,815 --> 04:13:51,883 GENERATED THIS PROVIRUS 5577 04:13:51,883 --> 04:13:54,185 ORIGINALLY THAT BROUGHT IN THIS 5578 04:13:54,185 --> 04:13:59,057 OLDER TYPE B PROVIRUS, AND 5579 04:13:59,057 --> 04:14:00,492 CROSSOVER WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF 5580 04:14:00,492 --> 04:14:06,364 THE GAG TO THE MIDDLE OF POL. 5581 04:14:06,364 --> 04:14:08,400 THAT WAS ALMOST IDENTICAL 5582 04:14:08,400 --> 04:14:09,834 BETWEEN THE TWO PROVIRUSES. 5583 04:14:09,834 --> 04:14:17,142 THE OTHER PROVIRUS, THE 22Q11.23 5584 04:14:17,142 --> 04:14:19,344 IS STILL IN OUR GENOME AND HAS A 5585 04:14:19,344 --> 04:14:22,080 COMPLETELY INTACT GAG GENE. 5586 04:14:22,080 --> 04:14:23,582 SO THERE'S RATHER STRONG 5587 04:14:23,582 --> 04:14:24,616 EVIDENCE THERE'S SOMETHING 5588 04:14:24,616 --> 04:14:25,584 SELECTIVELY ADVANTAGEOUS ABOUT 5589 04:14:25,584 --> 04:14:28,286 HAVING THESE GAG GENES IN OUR 5590 04:14:28,286 --> 04:14:30,388 GENOME. 5591 04:14:30,388 --> 04:14:31,656 ANOTHER INTERESTING PROPERTY IS 5592 04:14:31,656 --> 04:14:36,661 OF 3Q12.3 IS THAT THE 5 PRIME 5593 04:14:36,661 --> 04:14:40,699 LTR BUT NOT THE 3 PRIME LTR 5594 04:14:40,699 --> 04:14:44,102 CONTAINS THE FOUR PAIR BASE 5595 04:14:44,102 --> 04:14:46,271 MUTATION THAT, AS IT HAPPENS 5596 04:14:46,271 --> 04:14:50,609 CREATES THE BINDING SITES FOR 5597 04:14:50,609 --> 04:14:53,278 HOX-PBX TRANSCRIPTION FAMILY 5598 04:14:53,278 --> 04:14:53,612 PROTEIN. 5599 04:14:53,612 --> 04:14:54,813 THIS IS A COMMON TRANSCRIPTION 5600 04:14:54,813 --> 04:14:56,481 FACTOR, AND IT APPEARS A LOT OF 5601 04:14:56,481 --> 04:14:56,681 TIMES. 5602 04:14:56,681 --> 04:14:58,516 IT APPEARS IN CANCER AS 5603 04:14:58,516 --> 04:14:58,783 IMPORTANT. 5604 04:14:58,783 --> 04:14:59,951 IT APPEARS IN LOTS OF 5605 04:14:59,951 --> 04:15:08,026 DIFFERENTIATION AS IMPORTANT. 5606 04:15:08,026 --> 04:15:11,329 AS I WILL SHOW YOU IN THIS 5607 04:15:11,329 --> 04:15:13,698 SLIDE, THIS IS DONE SOME YEARS 5608 04:15:13,698 --> 04:15:17,002 AGO BY MEGAN IN MY LAB, IF YOU 5609 04:15:17,002 --> 04:15:18,970 LOOK AT -- WHAT SHE DID IS JUST 5610 04:15:18,970 --> 04:15:21,006 COMPARED WHAT THAT TRANSCRIPTION 5611 04:15:21,006 --> 04:15:23,308 FACTOR DOES IN A STANDARD 5612 04:15:23,308 --> 04:15:24,809 PROMOTER BASHING ASSAY AND PUTS 5613 04:15:24,809 --> 04:15:28,880 IT NEXT TO A VOCIFEROUS GENE. 5614 04:15:28,880 --> 04:15:37,055 IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM, THE 5615 04:15:37,055 --> 04:15:41,693 3Q PRIME WILD TYPE LTR, IF YOU 5616 04:15:41,693 --> 04:15:43,862 MAKE NO OTHER CHANGE, IT BRINGS 5617 04:15:43,862 --> 04:15:45,664 DOWN THE EXPRESSION A LOT. 5618 04:15:45,664 --> 04:15:49,634 ANOTHER RELATED PROPERTY OF THIS 5619 04:15:49,634 --> 04:15:54,005 PROVIRUS WAS WORKED OUT BY AIDAN 5620 04:15:54,005 --> 04:15:55,440 BURN A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN HE 5621 04:15:55,440 --> 04:15:57,575 LOOKED AT THE EXPRESSION OF ALL 5622 04:15:57,575 --> 04:16:00,111 ENDOGENOUS PROVIRUSES OF THESE 5623 04:16:00,111 --> 04:16:08,687 GROUPS ACROSS THE LARGE GTEX 5624 04:16:08,687 --> 04:16:12,223 DATABASE OF LARGE RNASEQ DATA 5625 04:16:12,223 --> 04:16:15,360 FROM TISSUES FROM 100 OR MORE 5626 04:16:15,360 --> 04:16:20,699 INDIVIDUALS, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, 5627 04:16:20,699 --> 04:16:22,167 3Q12.3 IS ONE THAT'S BY FAR THE 5628 04:16:22,167 --> 04:16:23,601 MOST HIGHLY EXPRESSED. 5629 04:16:23,601 --> 04:16:26,604 THE ONE EXPRESSED MORE IS HIGHLY 5630 04:16:26,604 --> 04:16:26,871 DEFECTIVE. 5631 04:16:26,871 --> 04:16:28,106 IT DOES SOMETHING, BUT IT HAS 5632 04:16:28,106 --> 04:16:30,608 NOTHING TO DO WITH BEING A 5633 04:16:30,608 --> 04:16:31,342 VIRUS. 5634 04:16:31,342 --> 04:16:37,849 THIS HAS A TECH ADD GENE, AND 5635 04:16:37,849 --> 04:16:39,551 THAT GENE IS HIGHLY SPECIFIC, 5636 04:16:39,551 --> 04:16:41,286 NOT IN CHIMPANZEES. 5637 04:16:41,286 --> 04:16:43,088 SO IT OCCURRED IN THE LAST 5 5638 04:16:43,088 --> 04:16:43,855 MILLION YEARS. 5639 04:16:43,855 --> 04:16:46,458 AND THAT MUTATION FURTHER, THAT 5640 04:16:46,458 --> 04:16:49,427 MUTATION FURTHER IS FIXED IN THE 5641 04:16:49,427 --> 04:16:58,937 HUMAN GENOME. 5642 04:16:58,937 --> 04:17:00,271 THE OTHER THING THAT IS 5643 04:17:00,271 --> 04:17:01,639 REMARKABLE IS THAT GAG -- IF YOU 5644 04:17:01,639 --> 04:17:05,009 LOOK AT THAT GAG GENE ACROSS 5645 04:17:05,009 --> 04:17:11,349 5,000 ALLELES IN THE HUMAN 1,000 5646 04:17:11,349 --> 04:17:14,085 GENOME DATABASE, THE CAPSID 5647 04:17:14,085 --> 04:17:17,422 DOMAIN HAS NOT A SINGLE 5648 04:17:17,422 --> 04:17:17,689 MUTATION. 5649 04:17:17,689 --> 04:17:22,494 THERE'S NO SINGLE CHANGE IN THE 5650 04:17:22,494 --> 04:17:25,430 CAPSID DOMAIN. 5651 04:17:25,430 --> 04:17:26,731 THERE ARE VERY FEW OVERALL, AND 5652 04:17:26,731 --> 04:17:27,966 IT'S OPEN TO EVERYBODY. 5653 04:17:27,966 --> 04:17:29,601 THAT FOR US IS RATHER STRONG 5654 04:17:29,601 --> 04:17:31,569 EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS DOING 5655 04:17:31,569 --> 04:17:32,203 SOMETHING INTERESTING AND MAYBE 5656 04:17:32,203 --> 04:17:35,306 EVEN IMPORTANT. 5657 04:17:35,306 --> 04:17:36,441 SO OUR HYPOTHESIS GIVEN WHAT 5658 04:17:36,441 --> 04:17:38,209 I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE ABOUT 5659 04:17:38,209 --> 04:17:40,245 ENDOGENOUS PROVIRUSES IS THAT 5660 04:17:40,245 --> 04:17:41,946 THIS MAY HAVE EVOLVED INTO SOME 5661 04:17:41,946 --> 04:17:44,415 KIND OF RESTRICTION FACTOR FOR 5662 04:17:44,415 --> 04:17:46,818 REPLICATION OF THAT RELATED 5663 04:17:46,818 --> 04:17:50,355 VIRUS, AND OUR SPECULATIVE 5664 04:17:50,355 --> 04:17:51,189 HYPOTHESIS, BECAUSE WE'LL NEVER 5665 04:17:51,189 --> 04:17:53,658 BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY PROVE IS, IS 5666 04:17:53,658 --> 04:17:54,726 THAT WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF THIS 5667 04:17:54,726 --> 04:17:57,595 GROUP OF PROVIRUS, THIS GROUP OF 5668 04:17:57,595 --> 04:17:59,664 VIRUSES WENT EXTINCT AS A VIRUS 5669 04:17:59,664 --> 04:18:02,467 ON THE ORDER OF HALF A MILLION 5670 04:18:02,467 --> 04:18:04,669 YEARS AGO. 5671 04:18:04,669 --> 04:18:06,137 OUR SPECULATIVE HYPOTHESIS IS IT 5672 04:18:06,137 --> 04:18:08,573 WAS THE ORIGIN OF THIS MUTATION 5673 04:18:08,573 --> 04:18:09,574 AND ITS SELECTION THAT SPREAD 5674 04:18:09,574 --> 04:18:11,009 THROUGH THE POPULATION THAT 5675 04:18:11,009 --> 04:18:12,277 ACTUALLY LED TO THE EXTINCTION 5676 04:18:12,277 --> 04:18:12,811 OF THE VIRUS. 5677 04:18:12,811 --> 04:18:14,112 I'LL JUST LEAVE YOU WITH THAT AS 5678 04:18:14,112 --> 04:18:20,351 A SPECULATION RIGHT NOW. 5679 04:18:20,351 --> 04:18:22,687 SO THE REST OF WHAT I'LL TELL 5680 04:18:22,687 --> 04:18:24,923 YOU IS ABOUT TRYING TO PROVE 5681 04:18:24,923 --> 04:18:27,425 THIS OR TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS AND 5682 04:18:27,425 --> 04:18:29,194 THEN CHECK IF IT TESTS OUT 5683 04:18:29,194 --> 04:18:30,762 BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GUESS IT DID, 5684 04:18:30,762 --> 04:18:39,137 CHECK THE MECHANISM OF IT. 5685 04:18:39,137 --> 04:18:41,573 THE GENERAL EXPERIMENT IS TO 5686 04:18:41,573 --> 04:18:46,344 EXPRESS THE KCON, EITHER 5687 04:18:46,344 --> 04:18:50,415 PSEUDOVIRUS OR EXPRESSIVE VIRUS 5688 04:18:50,415 --> 04:18:53,418 BY ADDING AN EXTRA GENE AND TEST 5689 04:18:53,418 --> 04:18:57,121 WITH THE 3Q12.3 GAG GENE BECAUSE 5690 04:18:57,121 --> 04:18:58,256 THE GAG GENE IS MOST CERTAINLY 5691 04:18:58,256 --> 04:19:00,158 DOING THE ACTION HERE, IF IT'S 5692 04:19:00,158 --> 04:19:05,129 GOING TO DO ANYTHING, AND 5693 04:19:05,129 --> 04:19:07,065 CO-TRANSEFFECT AND CHECK FOR 5694 04:19:07,065 --> 04:19:08,466 NON-INFECTIOUS VIRUSES, OR IF 5695 04:19:08,466 --> 04:19:10,068 YOU ADD AN ENVELOPE GENE, TO 5696 04:19:10,068 --> 04:19:11,069 ACTUALLY LOOK FOR AN INFECTIOUS 5697 04:19:11,069 --> 04:19:13,371 VIRUS. 5698 04:19:13,371 --> 04:19:14,505 AT THE SAME TIME, WE CAN DO LOTS 5699 04:19:14,505 --> 04:19:17,275 OF OTHER STUDIES TO SEE WHAT'S 5700 04:19:17,275 --> 04:19:17,542 GOING ON. 5701 04:19:17,542 --> 04:19:20,144 THIS CURVE IS PLOTTED PERHAPS A 5702 04:19:20,144 --> 04:19:22,614 LITTLE BIT BACKWARDS, BUT YOU'LL 5703 04:19:22,614 --> 04:19:27,352 NOTICE NOW AT THE -- SO THIS 5704 04:19:27,352 --> 04:19:36,394 SHOWS THAT THE HERV-K, THE 5705 04:19:36,394 --> 04:19:37,362 3Q12.3 RATHER STRONGLY BLOCKS 5706 04:19:37,362 --> 04:19:38,796 PRODUCTION, IN THIS CASE FOR AN 5707 04:19:38,796 --> 04:19:41,299 INFECTIOUS VIRUS, AS YOU'LL SEE 5708 04:19:41,299 --> 04:19:43,034 THE SAME IF YOU LOOK FOR 5709 04:19:43,034 --> 04:19:45,236 PARTICLE FORMATION, AND UP TO 5710 04:19:45,236 --> 04:19:48,506 ABOUT -- I'M GOING BACKWARDS 5711 04:19:48,506 --> 04:19:50,675 THERE. 5712 04:19:50,675 --> 04:19:58,182 UP TO ABOUT 1 IN 16 IS ENOUGH TO 5713 04:19:58,182 --> 04:20:00,418 GIVE ABOUT A 50 PERCENT 5714 04:20:00,418 --> 04:20:00,718 INHIBITION. 5715 04:20:00,718 --> 04:20:05,156 ONE GAG MOLECULE PER 16 OR 5716 04:20:05,156 --> 04:20:15,700 ONE -- OR ABOUT PER 3 HEXAMERS, 5717 04:20:18,636 --> 04:20:21,506 IF YOU LIKE, IS ABOUT THE RATIO, 5718 04:20:21,506 --> 04:20:22,941 AND SOME VIRUSES YOU GET EVEN 5719 04:20:22,941 --> 04:20:24,842 MORE. 5720 04:20:24,842 --> 04:20:27,078 JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY OF 5721 04:20:27,078 --> 04:20:29,247 ERIC'S VERY POPULAR SLIDE, ON 5722 04:20:29,247 --> 04:20:31,049 THE TINY CORNER OF THIS SLIDE, 5723 04:20:31,049 --> 04:20:32,650 JUST TO MAKE SURE WE ALL 5724 04:20:32,650 --> 04:20:33,618 UNDERSTAND -- I'M SURE YOU ALL 5725 04:20:33,618 --> 04:20:35,119 KNOW THIS ACTUALLY. 5726 04:20:35,119 --> 04:20:38,356 BUT THE GAG CONSISTS OF TOLEDO 5727 04:20:38,356 --> 04:20:42,060 MAINS, MATRIX, CAPSID, AND 5728 04:20:42,060 --> 04:20:46,431 NUCLEOCAPSID PRINCIPALLY, PLUS 5729 04:20:46,431 --> 04:20:48,366 SOME OTHERS INVOLVED WITH MATRIX 5730 04:20:48,366 --> 04:20:49,867 DOMAINS, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO 5731 04:20:49,867 --> 04:20:50,868 TALK ABOUT THAT. 5732 04:20:50,868 --> 04:20:53,871 THAT GOES WITH MATRIX ASSEMBLING 5733 04:20:53,871 --> 04:20:58,977 THE MEMBRANE, AND CAPSIDS 5734 04:20:58,977 --> 04:21:01,713 ASSEMBLING EACH OTHER INTO 5735 04:21:01,713 --> 04:21:04,082 HEXAMERS GENERALLY, AND THEN 5736 04:21:04,082 --> 04:21:05,917 WRAPPING THE MEMBRANE AROUND, 5737 04:21:05,917 --> 04:21:08,720 BUDDING OCCURS, AND IT BUDS OFF 5738 04:21:08,720 --> 04:21:10,922 AFTER INCLUDING MACHINERY TO 5739 04:21:10,922 --> 04:21:13,091 CLOSE OFF THE MEMBRANE AT THE 5740 04:21:13,091 --> 04:21:13,391 END. 5741 04:21:13,391 --> 04:21:16,661 THE BUDS IN THE MATURE PARTICLE 5742 04:21:16,661 --> 04:21:17,895 AND ONLY AFTERWARDS GETS 5743 04:21:17,895 --> 04:21:18,563 PROCESSED INTO ITS FINAL MATURE 5744 04:21:18,563 --> 04:21:20,331 STRUCTURE. 5745 04:21:20,331 --> 04:21:22,367 WHAT IS QUITE REMARKABLE IS THAT 5746 04:21:22,367 --> 04:21:23,001 THE DIFFERENCE IN STRUCTURE 5747 04:21:23,001 --> 04:21:24,836 BETWEEN THE MATURE AND THE 5748 04:21:24,836 --> 04:21:26,671 IMMATURE, THAT WAS ALREADY 5749 04:21:26,671 --> 04:21:28,573 MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT THAT T 5750 04:21:28,573 --> 04:21:32,510 THE -- THAT THERE'S QUITE A 5751 04:21:32,510 --> 04:21:34,846 SUBSTANTIAL REARRANGEMENT 5752 04:21:34,846 --> 04:21:38,549 BETWEEN HEXAMERS, BUT THEY'RE 5753 04:21:38,549 --> 04:21:40,585 QUITE A MATURE ORGANIZATION. 5754 04:21:40,585 --> 04:21:42,720 IT'S STRIKING THAT THE IMMATURE 5755 04:21:42,720 --> 04:21:43,988 PARTICLES, ALTHOUGH THEY CAN'T 5756 04:21:43,988 --> 04:21:45,490 BE COMPLETE PARTICLES, FOR 5757 04:21:45,490 --> 04:21:47,859 REASONS I'M NOT GOING TO GO 5758 04:21:47,859 --> 04:21:49,961 INTO, BUT THEY'RE ALWAYS ALMOST 5759 04:21:49,961 --> 04:21:51,662 PERFECTLY SPHERICAL IN THE 5760 04:21:51,662 --> 04:21:52,830 APPEARANCE, IN THE MICROGRAPH, 5761 04:21:52,830 --> 04:21:54,065 AND YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN SOME OF 5762 04:21:54,065 --> 04:21:54,665 THAT. 5763 04:21:54,665 --> 04:21:56,667 WHEREAS THE MATURE PARTICLES 5764 04:21:56,667 --> 04:21:59,037 HAVE THIS -- OFTEN HAVE SOME -- 5765 04:21:59,037 --> 04:22:06,377 ARE NEVER ACTUALLY PERFECTLY HEX 5766 04:22:06,377 --> 04:22:06,778 GON 5767 04:22:06,778 --> 04:22:07,678 HEXAGONAL SORT OF STRUCTURES 5768 04:22:07,678 --> 04:22:11,215 THAT YOU SEE WITH MANY OTHER 5769 04:22:11,215 --> 04:22:11,449 VIRUSES. 5770 04:22:11,449 --> 04:22:13,885 THEY'RE ALWAYS EITHER THIS 5771 04:22:13,885 --> 04:22:14,519 BULLET-SHAPED CAPSID OR 5772 04:22:14,519 --> 04:22:16,220 CONE-SHAPED CAPSID THAT YOU SEE 5773 04:22:16,220 --> 04:22:18,222 IN HIV, OR SOME OTHER STRUCTURE 5774 04:22:18,222 --> 04:22:20,725 WHICH IS NOT -- WE DON'T -- IT'S 5775 04:22:20,725 --> 04:22:26,164 NOT VERY WELL DEFINED FOR OTHER 5776 04:22:26,164 --> 04:22:26,497 RETROVIRUSES. 5777 04:22:26,497 --> 04:22:29,300 IT'S KIND OF LUMPY AND UGLY BY 5778 04:22:29,300 --> 04:22:31,102 AND LARGE. 5779 04:22:31,102 --> 04:22:37,041 IT'S NEVER PERFECT LY ICOSOHEDRL 5780 04:22:37,041 --> 04:22:38,876 IN APPEARANCE. 5781 04:22:38,876 --> 04:22:40,711 THAT'S MADE POSSIBLE BY THE 5782 04:22:40,711 --> 04:22:42,547 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NTD THAT 5783 04:22:42,547 --> 04:22:44,582 YOU CAN SEE DOWN IN THE LOWER 5784 04:22:44,582 --> 04:22:46,851 LEFT THERE BEING -- I'M SORRY, 5785 04:22:46,851 --> 04:22:48,719 BY THE CAPSID PROTEIN BEING 5786 04:22:48,719 --> 04:22:50,254 DIVIDED INTO THE N-TERMINAL 5787 04:22:50,254 --> 04:22:52,290 DOMAIN AND THE C-TERMINAL 5788 04:22:52,290 --> 04:22:52,723 DOMAIN. 5789 04:22:52,723 --> 04:22:55,426 THE C-TERMINAL DOMAIN OF THE 5790 04:22:55,426 --> 04:22:58,996 CAPSID INTERACTS CAPSID 5791 04:22:58,996 --> 04:23:00,264 MOLECULES WITH ONE ANOTHER TO 5792 04:23:00,264 --> 04:23:04,102 FORM HEXAMERS, AND THE INTERNAL 5793 04:23:04,102 --> 04:23:08,039 DOMAIN INTERACTS HEXAMER TO 5794 04:23:08,039 --> 04:23:09,507 HEXAMER TO FORM THE STRUCTURE, 5795 04:23:09,507 --> 04:23:10,908 AND THAT'S AN OVERSIMPLIFIED 5796 04:23:10,908 --> 04:23:13,044 VERSION OF WHAT'S GOING ON. 5797 04:23:13,044 --> 04:23:13,911 AND THAT'S MADE POSSIBILITY BY 5798 04:23:13,911 --> 04:23:15,947 THE STRUCTURE OF THIS LINKER 5799 04:23:15,947 --> 04:23:17,582 DOMAIN SO THERE CAN BE DIFFERENT 5800 04:23:17,582 --> 04:23:19,650 LEVELS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN 5801 04:23:19,650 --> 04:23:21,619 DIFFERENT HEXAMERS, AND THAT 5802 04:23:21,619 --> 04:23:24,655 ALLOWS THE PARTICLES TO ASSUME 5803 04:23:24,655 --> 04:23:30,561 OTHER THAN THIS ICOSALHEDRAL 5804 04:23:30,561 --> 04:23:30,828 STRUCTURE. 5805 04:23:30,828 --> 04:23:34,499 AND YOU SEE IT STARTS WITH THE 5806 04:23:34,499 --> 04:23:35,433 EXPERIMENT IN BLUE THAT STARTS 5807 04:23:35,433 --> 04:23:39,604 WITH KCON, THE WILD SIDE GAG 5808 04:23:39,604 --> 04:23:42,874 PROTEIN, AND WITH SUBSTITUTIONS 5809 04:23:42,874 --> 04:23:45,343 OF THE VARIOUS DOMAINS, CAPSID, 5810 04:23:45,343 --> 04:23:46,477 NUCLEOCAPSID, AND SO ON. 5811 04:23:46,477 --> 04:23:48,713 IF YOU SUBSTITUTE JUST THE 5812 04:23:48,713 --> 04:23:51,415 INTERIM PLUS THE LINKER, THEN 5813 04:23:51,415 --> 04:23:53,918 YOU GET A STRONG INHIBITION, AND 5814 04:23:53,918 --> 04:23:56,020 THE OTHER PARTS YOU SEE LESS 5815 04:23:56,020 --> 04:24:03,327 INHIBITION OR NO INHIBITION. 5816 04:24:03,327 --> 04:24:05,062 THAT LOCALIZES THE EFFECT OF 5817 04:24:05,062 --> 04:24:06,330 THIS PARTICULAR REGION. 5818 04:24:06,330 --> 04:24:07,498 WHEN YOU LOOK HARD, PARTICULARLY 5819 04:24:07,498 --> 04:24:09,867 AT THE LINKER SEQUENCE, ONE 5820 04:24:09,867 --> 04:24:12,136 MUTATION STANDS OUT, AND THAT'S 5821 04:24:12,136 --> 04:24:20,778 THE DELETION OF THE LUCYRINE. 5822 04:24:20,778 --> 04:24:23,014 AND THAT DELETION IN THE 5823 04:24:23,014 --> 04:24:26,717 STRUCTURE OF THE IMMATURE KCON 5824 04:24:26,717 --> 04:24:28,719 PROTEIN FORMS A VERY SPECIFIC 5825 04:24:28,719 --> 04:24:32,723 HYDROGEN BOND WITHIN A HELICAL 5826 04:24:32,723 --> 04:24:34,792 REGION IN THE INTERNAL DOMAIN. 5827 04:24:34,792 --> 04:24:36,661 THAT HYDROGEN BOND IS NOT SEEN 5828 04:24:36,661 --> 04:24:37,762 IN THE MORE MATURE PROTEIN. 5829 04:24:37,762 --> 04:24:38,963 YOU CAN SEE A COUPLE OF OTHERS, 5830 04:24:38,963 --> 04:24:47,305 BUT NOT THAT ONE. 5831 04:24:47,305 --> 04:24:56,447 IF YOU REPAIR THE SERINE 5832 04:24:56,447 --> 04:24:58,149 MUTATION -- SORRY. 5833 04:24:58,149 --> 04:25:01,319 IF YOU TAKE THE WILD TYPE VIRUS 5834 04:25:01,319 --> 04:25:02,553 AND INTRODUCE THESE VARIOUS 5835 04:25:02,553 --> 04:25:05,156 MUTATIONS INTO IT, YOU FIND ON 5836 04:25:05,156 --> 04:25:09,427 THE FAR RIGHT INTRODUCING THIS 5837 04:25:09,427 --> 04:25:11,562 SERINE DELETION RECAPITULATES 5838 04:25:11,562 --> 04:25:13,231 MOST OF THE ACTIVITY IN THIS 5839 04:25:13,231 --> 04:25:13,464 PROTEIN. 5840 04:25:13,464 --> 04:25:15,032 NOT QUITE ALL, SO WE THINK THERE 5841 04:25:15,032 --> 04:25:16,667 ARE OTHER MUTATIONS THAT ARE 5842 04:25:16,667 --> 04:25:18,135 ALSO IMPORTANT, BUT WE HAVEN'T 5843 04:25:18,135 --> 04:25:19,103 TRACKED THOSE DOWN YET. 5844 04:25:19,103 --> 04:25:20,404 THOSE ARE THE OTHER DIFFERENCES 5845 04:25:20,404 --> 04:25:23,107 THAT WE SEE REALLY MATTER VERY 5846 04:25:23,107 --> 04:25:27,211 MUCH AT ALL AS FAR AS THE 5847 04:25:27,211 --> 04:25:29,480 INHIBITION OF ACTIVITY IS 5848 04:25:29,480 --> 04:25:29,780 CONCERNED. 5849 04:25:29,780 --> 04:25:31,482 SO WE WANTED TO SEE WHAT THIS 5850 04:25:31,482 --> 04:25:32,750 LOOKED LIKE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE 5851 04:25:32,750 --> 04:25:34,452 VIRUS IS ACTUALLY DOING AS THE 5852 04:25:34,452 --> 04:25:36,387 BUDDING IS TRYING TO OCCUR, AS 5853 04:25:36,387 --> 04:25:39,357 THE REPLICATION IS TRYING TO 5854 04:25:39,357 --> 04:25:42,159 OCCUR, AND OF COURSE AS THE TAG 5855 04:25:42,159 --> 04:25:45,062 LINE OF AN OLD JINGLE THAT I 5856 04:25:45,062 --> 04:25:47,698 THINK YOU HAD TO LIVE IN NEW 5857 04:25:47,698 --> 04:25:53,304 ENGLAND TO HEAR, IT'S WHO YOU 5858 04:25:53,304 --> 04:25:53,871 GONNA CALL? 5859 04:25:53,871 --> 04:25:55,106 OF COURSE THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS, 5860 04:25:55,106 --> 04:25:55,306 RIGHT? 5861 04:25:55,306 --> 04:25:59,677 IT'S ALAN. 5862 04:25:59,677 --> 04:26:02,647 WE CALL OUR VIRUS ASSEMBLY GURU 5863 04:26:02,647 --> 04:26:08,085 HE 5864 04:26:08,085 --> 04:26:13,624 HERE, AND ALAN CALLS FERRI 5865 04:26:13,624 --> 04:26:15,493 SOHELLAN, OUR MICROSCOPE EXPERT, 5866 04:26:15,493 --> 04:26:18,763 AND WE SENT ALL THE SAMPLES OF 5867 04:26:18,763 --> 04:26:19,130 THIS. 5868 04:26:19,130 --> 04:26:22,433 THE FIRST IS ALL THE WILD TYPE 5869 04:26:22,433 --> 04:26:24,969 SAMPLES, THE KCON WILD TYPE 5870 04:26:24,969 --> 04:26:27,371 PROTEIN, AND YOU SEE THE 5871 04:26:27,371 --> 04:26:29,540 PERFECTLY GOOD PARTICLE 5872 04:26:29,540 --> 04:26:29,807 ASSEMBLY. 5873 04:26:29,807 --> 04:26:32,143 THEY ALWAYS APPEAR PERFECTLY 5874 04:26:32,143 --> 04:26:36,614 CIRCULAR, IF YOU LIKE PERFECTLY 5875 04:26:36,614 --> 04:26:39,150 SPHERICAL, AND QUITE UNIFORM IN 5876 04:26:39,150 --> 04:26:39,917 SIZE. 5877 04:26:39,917 --> 04:26:46,023 UNLIKE THE FINAL PRODUCTS. 5878 04:26:46,023 --> 04:26:49,460 HOWEVER, WHEN YOU LOOK AT 3Q12.3 5879 04:26:49,460 --> 04:26:51,429 GAG ALONE, REMEMBER IS THE 5880 04:26:51,429 --> 04:26:52,963 MUTANT PROVIRUS, YOU DON'T SEE 5881 04:26:52,963 --> 04:26:53,931 ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 5882 04:26:53,931 --> 04:26:56,634 YOU JUST SEE THESE SORT OF -- 5883 04:26:56,634 --> 04:26:58,703 LOOKS LIKE THE THICKENINGS OF 5884 04:26:58,703 --> 04:27:00,371 THE MEMBRANES WHERE IT'S TRYING 5885 04:27:00,371 --> 04:27:01,005 TO BUD. 5886 04:27:01,005 --> 04:27:02,373 THEY HAVEN'T ACTUALLY PROVEN 5887 04:27:02,373 --> 04:27:03,641 YET, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY 5888 04:27:03,641 --> 04:27:05,509 EXPERIMENTS TO SHOW DIRECTLY 5889 04:27:05,509 --> 04:27:07,478 THOSE ARE GAG PROTEINS, BUT IT'S 5890 04:27:07,478 --> 04:27:08,612 HARD TO IMAGINE THEY'RE ANYTHING 5891 04:27:08,612 --> 04:27:11,015 ELSE BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEE THIS 5892 04:27:11,015 --> 04:27:13,284 EVER UNLESS YOU HAVE THIS IN 5893 04:27:13,284 --> 04:27:15,019 THERE. 5894 04:27:15,019 --> 04:27:21,826 BUT NOW IF YOU TRANSFECT WITH 5895 04:27:21,826 --> 04:27:24,995 THE WILD TYPE PROTEINS, PROTEINS 5896 04:27:24,995 --> 04:27:27,631 FROM KCON, WHAT YOU GET ARE WHAT 5897 04:27:27,631 --> 04:27:31,168 WE LIKE TO CALL VUPs, OR VIRUS 5898 04:27:31,168 --> 04:27:32,970 UNLIKE PARTICLES, AND YOU GET 5899 04:27:32,970 --> 04:27:35,473 THIS BIZARRE KIND OF ATTEMPT TO 5900 04:27:35,473 --> 04:27:39,477 BOND BUT NOTHING -- THEY NEVER 5901 04:27:39,477 --> 04:27:39,677 CLOSE. 5902 04:27:39,677 --> 04:27:41,145 THEY JUST SORT OF GROW AROUND 5903 04:27:41,145 --> 04:27:51,622 INTO THESE UGLY STRUCTURES. 5904 04:27:56,794 --> 04:27:58,329 IT'S AS THOUGH YOU HAD A MIXTURE 5905 04:27:58,329 --> 04:28:00,598 OF THINGS WITH THOSE THAT CAN'T. 5906 04:28:00,598 --> 04:28:02,032 THAT'S WHAT YOU GET. 5907 04:28:02,032 --> 04:28:03,267 WE HAVEN'T PROVEN THAT'S WHAT IT 5908 04:28:03,267 --> 04:28:03,968 LOOKS LIKE. 5909 04:28:03,968 --> 04:28:05,703 WE HAVE COLLABORATION SET UP TO 5910 04:28:05,703 --> 04:28:07,037 DO REAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ON 5911 04:28:07,037 --> 04:28:17,548 THESE THINGS, BUT THAT IS OUR 5912 04:28:17,748 --> 04:28:18,783 HYPOTHESIS AT LEAST, AND I THINK 5913 04:28:18,783 --> 04:28:20,317 IT'S A PRETTY GOOD ONE, TO 5914 04:28:20,317 --> 04:28:21,285 UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 5915 04:28:21,285 --> 04:28:22,853 THAT ALLOWS THE FORMATION OF 5916 04:28:22,853 --> 04:28:24,221 THESE IMMATURE PARTICLES. 5917 04:28:24,221 --> 04:28:31,929 IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, THEN YOU 5918 04:28:31,929 --> 04:28:33,864 JUST CAN'T -- THE VIRUS PROBABLY 5919 04:28:33,864 --> 04:28:35,699 CAN'T PULL TOGETHER STRONG 5920 04:28:35,699 --> 04:28:39,603 ENOUGH TO FOLD A MEMBRANE AROUND 5921 04:28:39,603 --> 04:28:40,671 IT WITHOUT THAT PARTICULAR 5922 04:28:40,671 --> 04:28:40,905 LINKAGE. 5923 04:28:40,905 --> 04:28:42,840 SO IT STARTS OUT, BUT IT CAN'T 5924 04:28:42,840 --> 04:28:43,607 GET VERY FAR. 5925 04:28:43,607 --> 04:28:45,443 IF YOU MIX IT WITH GOOD, THEN 5926 04:28:45,443 --> 04:28:47,211 YOU JUST GET THESE MISSES. 5927 04:28:47,211 --> 04:28:50,014 ERIC ACTUALLY YEARS AGO 5928 04:28:50,014 --> 04:28:51,382 PUBLISHED WITH HIV WHAT 5929 04:28:51,382 --> 04:28:59,423 HAPPENS -- THERE'S A HOMOLOGOUS 5930 04:28:59,423 --> 04:29:03,060 SERINE IS HIV, AND IF YOU LOOK 5931 04:29:03,060 --> 04:29:05,329 AT THIS, YOU GET THE SIMILAR 5932 04:29:05,329 --> 04:29:07,264 BUDDING TYPE PHENOTYPE FROM IT. 5933 04:29:07,264 --> 04:29:08,599 IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE 5934 04:29:08,599 --> 04:29:10,201 WHAT THE DELETION OF THAT LOOKED 5935 04:29:10,201 --> 04:29:12,636 LIKE TOO, BUT THAT HASN'T BEEN 5936 04:29:12,636 --> 04:29:20,478 DONE YET. 5937 04:29:20,478 --> 04:29:23,314 INTERESTING NOW, 22Q11.3, WHICH 5938 04:29:23,314 --> 04:29:25,382 HAS IN THE UPPER RIGHT, THE 5939 04:29:25,382 --> 04:29:27,218 IDENTICAL AMINO ACID SEQUENCE. 5940 04:29:27,218 --> 04:29:29,286 THIS HAS BEEN PRESERVED FOR 10 5941 04:29:29,286 --> 04:29:31,989 MILLION YEARS IN OUR ANCESTRAL 5942 04:29:31,989 --> 04:29:33,157 GENOMES, DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER 5943 04:29:33,157 --> 04:29:35,759 AMINO ACID THAT WE DON'T THINK 5944 04:29:35,759 --> 04:29:38,829 IS MEANINGFUL, ALTHOUGH WE 5945 04:29:38,829 --> 04:29:40,097 HAVEN'T PROVEN IT YET, BUT 5946 04:29:40,097 --> 04:29:41,799 THERE'S NO REASON TO BELIEVE 5947 04:29:41,799 --> 04:29:43,634 THAT POSITION HAS ANY EFFECT ON 5948 04:29:43,634 --> 04:29:44,034 IT. 5949 04:29:44,034 --> 04:29:44,902 THAT DOES NOT HAVE THIS EFFECT. 5950 04:29:44,902 --> 04:29:46,537 IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM, YOU 5951 04:29:46,537 --> 04:29:49,106 CAN SEE IT DOES NOT BLOCK THE 5952 04:29:49,106 --> 04:29:52,309 BUDDING AND RELEASE. 5953 04:29:52,309 --> 04:29:53,811 SO WHY DOES IT DO THAT? 5954 04:29:53,811 --> 04:29:55,679 THIS IS THE GAG GENE OF THE 5955 04:29:55,679 --> 04:29:56,680 ANCESTRAL VIRUS. 5956 04:29:56,680 --> 04:29:58,182 YOU LOOK, AND YOU DON'T SEE 5957 04:29:58,182 --> 04:29:58,816 ANYTHING HAPPENING. 5958 04:29:58,816 --> 04:30:00,384 YOU LOOK AT THE TOP PICTURE, AND 5959 04:30:00,384 --> 04:30:01,585 YOU DON'T SEE ANYTHING HAPPENING 5960 04:30:01,585 --> 04:30:02,753 WITH THE MEMBRANE. 5961 04:30:02,753 --> 04:30:04,455 YOU DO SEE BLOBS AND STUFF 5962 04:30:04,455 --> 04:30:04,688 INSIDE. 5963 04:30:04,688 --> 04:30:06,924 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BLOBS OF 5964 04:30:06,924 --> 04:30:17,434 HIGHER MACK -- MAGNIFY , WHAT 5965 04:30:19,370 --> 04:30:21,705 YOU SEE, IF YOU REMEMBER YOUR 5966 04:30:21,705 --> 04:30:23,407 HISTORICAL SEROLOGY, SOMETHING 5967 04:30:23,407 --> 04:30:25,476 YOU CALL A PARTICLES. 5968 04:30:25,476 --> 04:30:29,647 MANY RETROVIRUSES, INCLUDING 5969 04:30:29,647 --> 04:30:32,516 MPNV AND OTHERS, DO NOT MATURE 5970 04:30:32,516 --> 04:30:34,084 THE VIRUS MEMBRANE THE WAY HIV 5971 04:30:34,084 --> 04:30:35,853 AND MOST OTHER RETROVIRUSES WE 5972 04:30:35,853 --> 04:30:38,155 WORK WITH DO, THEY MATURE AS 5973 04:30:38,155 --> 04:30:41,625 INTERCELLULAR PARTICLES, 5974 04:30:41,625 --> 04:30:43,460 INTERCELLULARPLASMIC PARTICLES 5975 04:30:43,460 --> 04:30:45,729 THAT THEN FIND THEIR WAY TO THE 5976 04:30:45,729 --> 04:30:47,164 MEMBRANE AND WRAP THE MEMBRANE 5977 04:30:47,164 --> 04:30:48,065 AROUND THEM. 5978 04:30:48,065 --> 04:30:49,500 THAT SORT OF SEEMS TO BE WHAT'S 5979 04:30:49,500 --> 04:30:51,435 HAPPENING HERE, BUT THESE NEVER 5980 04:30:51,435 --> 04:30:53,103 GET OUT TO THE MEMBRANE, AND 5981 04:30:53,103 --> 04:30:54,705 THEY'RE INEFFECTIVE IN DOING 5982 04:30:54,705 --> 04:30:54,905 THAT. 5983 04:30:54,905 --> 04:30:57,575 YOU SEE THAT, THEY SEEM NOT TO 5984 04:30:57,575 --> 04:30:58,442 CLOSE COMPLETELY EITHER. 5985 04:30:58,442 --> 04:31:01,178 YOU APPROACH THE IDENTICAL AMINO 5986 04:31:01,178 --> 04:31:01,979 ACID SEQUENCE, LIKE THE ONE I 5987 04:31:01,979 --> 04:31:04,315 SHOWED YOU BEFORE. 5988 04:31:04,315 --> 04:31:06,617 AND THEN NOT AN IMPORTANT ONE, 5989 04:31:06,617 --> 04:31:08,185 AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL. 5990 04:31:08,185 --> 04:31:11,522 THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THE MATRIX 5991 04:31:11,522 --> 04:31:14,258 PROTEIN OF THE ANCESTRAL VIRUS. 5992 04:31:14,258 --> 04:31:16,393 MOST MATRIX PROTEINS WE'VE 5993 04:31:16,393 --> 04:31:19,530 TALKED ABOUT AT THE AMINO 5994 04:31:19,530 --> 04:31:27,304 TERMINUS HAVE DONE ONLY GLY 5995 04:31:27,304 --> 04:31:28,272 GLYCOLSYLATION SITE, AND THAT 5996 04:31:28,272 --> 04:31:29,773 ALLOWS THE ASSOCIATION AND THE 5997 04:31:29,773 --> 04:31:30,741 BUDDING PROCESS TO GO. 5998 04:31:30,741 --> 04:31:35,479 HOWEVER, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 5999 04:31:35,479 --> 04:31:38,716 LTR5B, IF YOU LOOK, THERE ARE 6000 04:31:38,716 --> 04:31:40,250 MORE ACIDIC AMINO ACIDS IN THE 6001 04:31:40,250 --> 04:31:41,585 REGION THAN BASIC AMINO ACIDS. 6002 04:31:41,585 --> 04:31:44,154 AND THE PREDICTED PK OF THIS IS 6003 04:31:44,154 --> 04:31:45,456 ACTUALLY QUITE ACIDIC. 6004 04:31:45,456 --> 04:31:47,124 THERE'S NO WAY THIS PROTEIN IS 6005 04:31:47,124 --> 04:31:48,392 GOING TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE 6006 04:31:48,392 --> 04:31:49,827 MEMBRANE THE SAME WAY. 6007 04:31:49,827 --> 04:31:50,527 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. 6008 04:31:50,527 --> 04:31:51,862 THESE DON'T GO TO THE MEMBRANE 6009 04:31:51,862 --> 04:31:52,463 THEY ASSOCIATE. 6010 04:31:52,463 --> 04:31:53,631 THEY DON'T GO TO THE MEMBRANE AT 6011 04:31:53,631 --> 04:31:54,765 THAT POINT. 6012 04:31:54,765 --> 04:31:55,966 HOW THEY DO GET THERE EVENTUALLY 6013 04:31:55,966 --> 04:31:57,801 IN THE REAL VIRUS, I HAVE NO 6014 04:31:57,801 --> 04:31:58,669 IDEA, BUT THEY DON'T ASSOCIATE 6015 04:31:58,669 --> 04:32:05,042 WITH IT THERE. 6016 04:32:05,042 --> 04:32:06,410 I'LL TELL YOU HOW WE INTERPRET 6017 04:32:06,410 --> 04:32:07,878 ALL THIS IN EVOLUTIONARY TERMS 6018 04:32:07,878 --> 04:32:09,780 AT THE END, BUT FIRST I WANT TO 6019 04:32:09,780 --> 04:32:10,681 POINT OUT SOMETHING ELSE. 6020 04:32:10,681 --> 04:32:12,783 IF YOU LOOK AT THE TWO LITTLE 6021 04:32:12,783 --> 04:32:15,819 SETS OF BARS, IF YOU DO THE SAME 6022 04:32:15,819 --> 04:32:18,789 KINDS OF EXPERIMENTS WITHIN MLV, 6023 04:32:18,789 --> 04:32:22,493 THE GAMMA RETROVIRUS, OR THE 6024 04:32:22,493 --> 04:32:24,928 ALPHA RETROVIRUS, THIS HAS NO 6025 04:32:24,928 --> 04:32:27,731 EFFECT ON THESE RETROVIRUSES, 6026 04:32:27,731 --> 04:32:30,334 WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE 6027 04:32:30,334 --> 04:32:31,301 COEXISTENCE WOULD BE NECESSARY 6028 04:32:31,301 --> 04:32:32,770 FOR THIS EFFECT TO OCCUR. 6029 04:32:32,770 --> 04:32:35,739 IF YOU LOOK AT MPMV, THIS IS A 6030 04:32:35,739 --> 04:32:39,176 VIRUS THAT ALSO ACCESSIBLES 6031 04:32:39,176 --> 04:32:39,877 INTRACELLULAR, YOU CAN SEE THIS 6032 04:32:39,877 --> 04:32:46,884 IS INHIBITED BY THE 22Q11.23, 6033 04:32:46,884 --> 04:32:49,887 WHICH HAS THE INTERPLASMIC 6034 04:32:49,887 --> 04:32:50,487 ASSEMBLY AS WELL. 6035 04:32:50,487 --> 04:32:52,556 THIS IS THE SAME KIND OF 6036 04:32:52,556 --> 04:32:58,696 COASSEMBLY DEFECT, JUST IN 6037 04:32:58,696 --> 04:33:02,866 INTERCYTOPLASMIC. 6038 04:33:02,866 --> 04:33:03,834 REMARKABLY, AND WHY I WAS ABLE 6039 04:33:03,834 --> 04:33:06,503 TO GET A GRANT ON THIS SUBJECT, 6040 04:33:06,503 --> 04:33:11,141 THE -- THIS PROTEIN DOES BLOCK 6041 04:33:11,141 --> 04:33:16,980 THE 3Q12.23 PROTEIN DOES BLOCK 6042 04:33:16,980 --> 04:33:20,017 THE HIV ASSEMBLY. 6043 04:33:20,017 --> 04:33:20,984 AGAIN, YOU SEE IT'S ALMOST 6044 04:33:20,984 --> 04:33:22,619 EXACTLY THE SAME KIND OF CURVE I 6045 04:33:22,619 --> 04:33:30,661 SHOWED YOU BEFORE WHEN YOU 6046 04:33:30,661 --> 04:33:32,863 TITRATE IT AGAINST HIV, AND THE 6047 04:33:32,863 --> 04:33:34,698 LTR RELEASE. 6048 04:33:34,698 --> 04:33:38,302 SO IT BLOCKS HIV PARTICLE 6049 04:33:38,302 --> 04:33:40,037 MATURATION WHEN DOSED IN THE 6050 04:33:40,037 --> 04:33:40,971 INTENDED MANNER. 6051 04:33:40,971 --> 04:33:42,873 IF YOU LOOK AT PICTURES -- 6052 04:33:42,873 --> 04:33:45,542 HERE'S HIV ALONE ON THE LEFT. 6053 04:33:45,542 --> 04:33:48,512 HERE'S THE GAG PROFILE, SO IT 6054 04:33:48,512 --> 04:33:49,980 GETS MATURE PARTICLES. 6055 04:33:49,980 --> 04:33:52,616 IF YOU ADD THAT WITH KCON GAG, 6056 04:33:52,616 --> 04:33:53,984 WHICH ACTUALLY HAS BEEN SHOWN BY 6057 04:33:53,984 --> 04:33:56,620 OTHERS, INCLUDING A PAPER WITH 6058 04:33:56,620 --> 04:33:58,355 ALAN REIN, TO BE SOMEWHAT 6059 04:33:58,355 --> 04:34:00,724 INHIBITORY, BUT NOWHERE NEARLY 6060 04:34:00,724 --> 04:34:05,763 AS MUCH AS 3Q12.3. 6061 04:34:05,763 --> 04:34:07,531 YOU GET PERFECTLY GOOD LOOKING 6062 04:34:07,531 --> 04:34:08,799 STRUCTURES, BUT YOU GET THE SAME 6063 04:34:08,799 --> 04:34:10,400 KIND OF ASSEMBLY DEFECTS ON THE 6064 04:34:10,400 --> 04:34:12,903 RIGHT THAT WE SAW WITH THE WILD 6065 04:34:12,903 --> 04:34:13,604 TY 6066 04:34:13,604 --> 04:34:18,742 TYPE. 6067 04:34:18,742 --> 04:34:22,412 HERV-K. 6068 04:34:22,412 --> 04:34:23,847 SO IN ALMOST ALL THE EXPERIMENTS 6069 04:34:23,847 --> 04:34:26,416 I SHOWED YOU BEFORE, EXCEPT FOR 6070 04:34:26,416 --> 04:34:33,724 THE END, SET UP A NANO-BRET 6071 04:34:33,724 --> 04:34:44,268 ASSAY, WHICH USES BIOLEUKEMIA -- 6072 04:34:45,068 --> 04:34:46,904 BIOLUMINESCENCE ASSAY. 6073 04:34:46,904 --> 04:34:50,040 SO YOU HAVE TWO POTENTIAL 6074 04:34:50,040 --> 04:34:54,578 INTERACTORS, ONE HAS THE 6075 04:34:54,578 --> 04:34:56,280 NANO-LUKE TAG AND THE OTHER HAS 6076 04:34:56,280 --> 04:34:57,347 A HALO TAG. 6077 04:34:57,347 --> 04:35:00,717 THE EMISSIONS FROM THE NANO-LUKE 6078 04:35:00,717 --> 04:35:02,820 CAN THEN STIMULATE THE HALO AND 6079 04:35:02,820 --> 04:35:05,455 GIVE THE HALO SPECTRAL 6080 04:35:05,455 --> 04:35:06,890 FLUORESCENCE, AND YOU CAN USE 6081 04:35:06,890 --> 04:35:08,125 THAT AS AN INTRACELLULAR MEASURE 6082 04:35:08,125 --> 04:35:10,561 OF INTERACTION, AND YOU CAN SEE 6083 04:35:10,561 --> 04:35:16,366 FROM THE BARS THAT THE HALO 6084 04:35:16,366 --> 04:35:19,903 ALONE DOES NOTHING OF 6085 04:35:19,903 --> 04:35:20,637 SIGNIFIC 6086 04:35:20,637 --> 04:35:20,971 SIGNIFICANCE. 6087 04:35:20,971 --> 04:35:22,706 THEN ON THE RIGHT, THE OTHER 6088 04:35:22,706 --> 04:35:26,643 CONTROLS, MLV AND MPNV DON'T 6089 04:35:26,643 --> 04:35:28,779 HAVE ANY EFFECT, SHOW NO 6090 04:35:28,779 --> 04:35:32,349 INTERACTIONS, WHEREAS BOTH THE 6091 04:35:32,349 --> 04:35:36,053 3Q12.3 GAG HALO, THE KCON GAG 6092 04:35:36,053 --> 04:35:38,355 HALO INTERACTS WITH ITSELF, AS 6093 04:35:38,355 --> 04:35:39,289 YOU'D EXPECT. 6094 04:35:39,289 --> 04:35:45,062 THE 3Q12.3 HALO INTERACTS, AND 6095 04:35:45,062 --> 04:35:46,263 HIV INTERACTS WITH MORE WHAT 6096 04:35:46,263 --> 04:35:48,332 SEEM TO BE THE SAME LEVEL. 6097 04:35:48,332 --> 04:35:50,300 THE FACT THAT THEY INTERACT WITH 6098 04:35:50,300 --> 04:35:53,437 QUITE SURPRISING, THESE TWO 6099 04:35:53,437 --> 04:35:54,605 CAPSID PROTEINS HAVE VERY LITTLE 6100 04:35:54,605 --> 04:35:56,440 SIMILARITY IN SEQUENCE, BUT THEY 6101 04:35:56,440 --> 04:35:58,642 ARE QUITE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURE 6102 04:35:58,642 --> 04:36:01,411 AT THE CRITICAL JUNCTION WHERE 6103 04:36:01,411 --> 04:36:06,583 THE HEXAMER IS FORMED IN THE 6104 04:36:06,583 --> 04:36:07,451 IMMATURE FORM. 6105 04:36:07,451 --> 04:36:08,552 YOU CAN SEE THE GRAY TRACE ON 6106 04:36:08,552 --> 04:36:10,654 THE RIGHT IS HIV. 6107 04:36:10,654 --> 04:36:19,096 THE ORANGE IS HML-2. 6108 04:36:19,096 --> 04:36:21,365 THEY'RE REMARKABLY SIMILAR IN 6109 04:36:21,365 --> 04:36:23,100 THEIR STRUCTURE EVEN THOUGH THE 6110 04:36:23,100 --> 04:36:24,134 AMINO ACID SEQUENCE IS 6111 04:36:24,134 --> 04:36:24,401 DIFFERENT. 6112 04:36:24,401 --> 04:36:26,536 WE IMAGINE THIS DOES ALLOW AT 6113 04:36:26,536 --> 04:36:29,640 LEAST SOME COASSEMBLY OF THE 6114 04:36:29,640 --> 04:36:32,209 TWO, AND THAT IS WHAT ALLOWS IT 6115 04:36:32,209 --> 04:36:36,513 TO BE PROTECTIVE, IF YOU LIKE, 6116 04:36:36,513 --> 04:36:39,116 EVEN THOUGH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 6117 04:36:39,116 --> 04:36:40,851 SEQUENCE OF THESE, AS SHOWN BY 6118 04:36:40,851 --> 04:36:44,054 THE TREE THERE, THERE'S REALLY 6119 04:36:44,054 --> 04:36:49,159 NO PARTICULAR SPECIAL SEQUENCE 6120 04:36:49,159 --> 04:36:50,627 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE 6121 04:36:50,627 --> 04:36:51,895 PROTEINS OVERALL. 6122 04:36:51,895 --> 04:36:53,964 NOW TO THE SORT OF BOTTOM LINE 6123 04:36:53,964 --> 04:36:54,164 HERE. 6124 04:36:54,164 --> 04:36:56,099 WE INFERRED FROM ALL OF THIS 6125 04:36:56,099 --> 04:36:58,835 WITH A LITTLE BIT OF SPECULATION 6126 04:36:58,835 --> 04:37:02,306 MIXED IN AN EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAY 6127 04:37:02,306 --> 04:37:05,108 BY WHICH THIS HAS COME TO BE. 6128 04:37:05,108 --> 04:37:12,449 YOU START OUT WITH THE LTR-5B, 6129 04:37:12,449 --> 04:37:15,252 THE ANCESTRAL VIRUS, TO THE HS 6130 04:37:15,252 --> 04:37:17,788 GROUP, AND REPLICATED IN OUR 6131 04:37:17,788 --> 04:37:19,156 ANCESTORS GOING BACK 25 MILLION 6132 04:37:19,156 --> 04:37:19,356 YEARS. 6133 04:37:19,356 --> 04:37:20,991 I ONLY SHOW WHAT'S HAPPENED IN 6134 04:37:20,991 --> 04:37:23,260 THE LAST 10 MILLION YEARS. 6135 04:37:23,260 --> 04:37:26,730 AT SOME POINT, AND ALSO WE THINK 6136 04:37:26,730 --> 04:37:28,999 IN THE HUMAN, COMMON ANCESTORS 6137 04:37:28,999 --> 04:37:32,536 HUMANS AND GORILLAS, BUT PRIOR 6138 04:37:32,536 --> 04:37:39,176 TO THE OTHER ONE, THIS MUTATION 6139 04:37:39,176 --> 04:37:41,645 INSERTED, WE SPECULATE THAT THIS 6140 04:37:41,645 --> 04:37:43,413 WAS THEN PROTECTED AGAINST 6141 04:37:43,413 --> 04:37:45,916 REPLICATION OF THE 5B TYPE 6142 04:37:45,916 --> 04:37:48,318 VIRUSES WHICH HAD THIS 6143 04:37:48,318 --> 04:37:50,420 INTRACELLULAR PLASMIC ASSEMBLY. 6144 04:37:50,420 --> 04:37:54,358 PERHAPS IN RESPONSE TO THIS, THE 6145 04:37:54,358 --> 04:37:57,828 5HS TYPE, WHICH HAS THE 6146 04:37:57,828 --> 04:37:59,930 CYTOPLASMIC ASSEMBLY MAY HAVE 6147 04:37:59,930 --> 04:38:01,932 EVOLVED BY MUTATIONS OF 6148 04:38:01,932 --> 04:38:03,433 DUPLICATION, AS YOU CAN SEE IN 6149 04:38:03,433 --> 04:38:05,235 THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, IN THE 6150 04:38:05,235 --> 04:38:07,971 MATRIX N-TERMINAL REGION TO GIVE 6151 04:38:07,971 --> 04:38:11,541 IT MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED ASSEMBLY, 6152 04:38:11,541 --> 04:38:13,043 AND THAT HAS ALLOWED IT TO 6153 04:38:13,043 --> 04:38:15,979 ESCAPE FROM THE EFFECTS OF THIS 6154 04:38:15,979 --> 04:38:16,580 INHIBITORY EFFECT MIGHT HAVE 6155 04:38:16,580 --> 04:38:18,515 BEEN. 6156 04:38:18,515 --> 04:38:19,683 THAT WAS THEN IN THE COURSE OF 6157 04:38:19,683 --> 04:38:22,219 THE REPLICATION THAT VIRUS, THE 6158 04:38:22,219 --> 04:38:23,820 RECOMBINATION OCCURRED, WHICH 6159 04:38:23,820 --> 04:38:25,655 BROUGHT IN THE CAPSID, 6160 04:38:25,655 --> 04:38:27,791 PARTICULARLY THE CAPSID DOMAIN 6161 04:38:27,791 --> 04:38:33,096 FROM THE RESIDENT 5B VIRUS. 6162 04:38:33,096 --> 04:38:35,932 THAT THEN REPLICATED ALL THE WAY 6163 04:38:35,932 --> 04:38:38,468 UP AND PROBABLY ALSO GAVE AT 6164 04:38:38,468 --> 04:38:40,404 LEAST SOME PROTECTION INTO 6165 04:38:40,404 --> 04:38:42,305 HUMANS, AND THEN AT SOME POINT 6166 04:38:42,305 --> 04:38:43,874 IN THE HUMAN SPECIFIC ANCESTRY 6167 04:38:43,874 --> 04:38:46,176 IN THE LAST 5 MILLION YEARS OR 6168 04:38:46,176 --> 04:38:48,311 SO, THAT DOES DUPLICATION IN THE 6169 04:38:48,311 --> 04:38:50,547 LTR OCCURRED, AND THAT GAVE IT A 6170 04:38:50,547 --> 04:38:54,117 MUCH BETTER EXPRESSION. 6171 04:38:54,117 --> 04:38:55,685 AND WE SPECULATE IT MAY HAVE 6172 04:38:55,685 --> 04:38:56,686 CONTRIBUTED AT LEAST TO THE 6173 04:38:56,686 --> 04:38:58,555 EXTINCTION OF THAT AS A VIRUS. 6174 04:38:58,555 --> 04:39:01,224 THAT IS OUR SORT OF CURRENT 6175 04:39:01,224 --> 04:39:02,426 HYPOTHETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR 6176 04:39:02,426 --> 04:39:04,528 THINKING ABOUT HOW THE EVOLUTION 6177 04:39:04,528 --> 04:39:06,296 OF THIS VIRUS, THIS PARTICULAR 6178 04:39:06,296 --> 04:39:07,564 VIRUS AND RESTRICTION FACTOR 6179 04:39:07,564 --> 04:39:09,332 MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED. 6180 04:39:09,332 --> 04:39:10,500 MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAB HAVE MADE 6181 04:39:10,500 --> 04:39:12,536 THIS POSSIBLE. 6182 04:39:12,536 --> 04:39:14,171 THIS IS A LONG SERIES OF 6183 04:39:14,171 --> 04:39:15,972 STUDENTS AND POST DOCS WHO 6184 04:39:15,972 --> 04:39:19,676 WORKED ON THIS OVER THE YEARS, 6185 04:39:19,676 --> 04:39:26,750 RAVI, MEAGHAN, FARRAH, AIDAN, 6186 04:39:26,750 --> 04:39:28,285 AND MOST OF THEM, ALL THE WORK I 6187 04:39:28,285 --> 04:39:30,487 SHOWED YOU, IS NOW THE WORK OF 6188 04:39:30,487 --> 04:39:32,189 MIKE FREEMAN, NOW A POST DOC IN 6189 04:39:32,189 --> 04:39:34,691 THE LAB, WITH THE ENORMOUS 6190 04:39:34,691 --> 04:39:38,628 SUPPORT TO GET THE BEAUTIFUL 6191 04:39:38,628 --> 04:39:40,097 ELECTROMICROGRAPHS. 6192 04:39:40,097 --> 04:39:42,099 WITH PARTICULAR THANKS OVERALL 6193 04:39:42,099 --> 04:39:45,202 TO ALAN REIN, WHO EVER SINCE HE 6194 04:39:45,202 --> 04:39:48,004 JOINED THE DRP BACK IN '98 OR SO 6195 04:39:48,004 --> 04:39:49,739 HAS BEEN A REALLY VALUED 6196 04:39:49,739 --> 04:39:51,808 COLLEAGUE AND SOURCE OF 6197 04:39:51,808 --> 04:39:54,478 INSPIRATION ON CRITICAL SCIENCE. 6198 04:39:54,478 --> 04:40:04,754 I'LL THANK YOU. 6199 04:40:07,390 --> 04:40:08,525 >> YOU'VE SHOWN THIS DATA. 6200 04:40:08,525 --> 04:40:09,593 I DON'T REMEMBER THE RESULTS. 6201 04:40:09,593 --> 04:40:12,362 HOW BROAD IS THE CELLULAR TISSUE 6202 04:40:12,362 --> 04:40:13,797 DISTRIBUTION OF THE INTERFERING 6203 04:40:13,797 --> 04:40:14,097 RETROVIRUS? 6204 04:40:14,097 --> 04:40:15,232 >> IT'S EVERYWHERE. 6205 04:40:15,232 --> 04:40:16,766 THE ONLY PLACE IN THE DATA SET 6206 04:40:16,766 --> 04:40:19,636 IT DIDN'T SHOW UP WAS IN WHOLE 6207 04:40:19,636 --> 04:40:21,805 BLOOD, WHICH YOU WOULD ARGUE 6208 04:40:21,805 --> 04:40:24,107 COULD WELL BE ALLOWING -- IF IT 6209 04:40:24,107 --> 04:40:26,109 HAD BEEN EXPRESSED THERE WELL 6210 04:40:26,109 --> 04:40:27,711 ENOUGH, WE MIGHT NEVER HAVE HAD 6211 04:40:27,711 --> 04:40:28,445 THE HIV PANDEMIC. 6212 04:40:28,445 --> 04:40:31,114 NOW WE'RE GETTING REALLY 6213 04:40:31,114 --> 04:40:33,316 SPECULATIVE OF COURSE. 6214 04:40:33,316 --> 04:40:35,519 IN FACT, MY -- ONE OF THE 6215 04:40:35,519 --> 04:40:37,220 STRETCH AIMS OF MY GRANT IS TO 6216 04:40:37,220 --> 04:40:39,189 TRY TO GET IT EXPRESSED AGAIN TO 6217 04:40:39,189 --> 04:40:40,390 SEE IF WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE WHAT 6218 04:40:40,390 --> 04:40:47,230 THE EFFECT WOULD BE. 6219 04:40:47,230 --> 04:40:51,501 >> HOW CAN THE ASSAY WITH THE 6220 04:40:51,501 --> 04:40:52,836 CYTOPLASMIC PROTECTION DESCRIBED 6221 04:40:52,836 --> 04:40:54,137 BY ERIC HUNTER SEVERAL YEARS 6222 04:40:54,137 --> 04:40:57,407 AGO, AND IT'S FURTHER DOWN -- 6223 04:40:57,407 --> 04:40:59,476 >> I WOULD HAVE TO DO OTHER 6224 04:40:59,476 --> 04:41:01,845 THINGS TO MPNV TO MAKE IT 6225 04:41:01,845 --> 04:41:02,112 NECESSARY. 6226 04:41:02,112 --> 04:41:03,413 >> ARE THERE CHANGES IN THAT 6227 04:41:03,413 --> 04:41:03,647 REGION? 6228 04:41:03,647 --> 04:41:05,148 >> TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE 6229 04:41:05,148 --> 04:41:05,682 HAVEN'T LOOKED. 6230 04:41:05,682 --> 04:41:06,783 THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT. 6231 04:41:06,783 --> 04:41:16,860 WE SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. 6232 04:41:16,860 --> 04:41:23,400 >> WITH THE MYRISILATION -- 6233 04:41:23,400 --> 04:41:24,634 >> WE HAVEN'T LOOKED TO SEE, 6234 04:41:24,634 --> 04:41:26,069 BUT THE SIGNAL IS THERE. 6235 04:41:26,069 --> 04:41:36,413 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 6236 04:41:53,096 --> 04:41:54,931 >> OUR NEXT SPEAKER HAS A TRULY 6237 04:41:54,931 --> 04:41:55,832 UNIQUE DISTINCTION. 6238 04:41:55,832 --> 04:41:57,767 HE HAS BEEN IN THE FIELD LONGER 6239 04:41:57,767 --> 04:41:59,135 THAN I HAVE. 6240 04:41:59,135 --> 04:42:03,373 THE REASON I KNOW THAT IS WHEN I 6241 04:42:03,373 --> 04:42:06,176 JOINED RUBIN'S LAB IN THE SUMMER 6242 04:42:06,176 --> 04:42:11,881 OF 1962, PETER WAS JUST LEAVING. 6243 04:42:11,881 --> 04:42:15,018 WE OVERLAPPED FOR PROBABLY A FEW 6244 04:42:15,018 --> 04:42:17,721 WEEKS IN HARRY RUBIN'S LAB WHEN 6245 04:42:17,721 --> 04:42:20,323 HE WAS JUST LEAVING TO FORM HIS 6246 04:42:20,323 --> 04:42:22,792 OWN LAB. 6247 04:42:22,792 --> 04:42:26,830 SO IT'S BEEN MANY, MANY DECADES, 6248 04:42:26,830 --> 04:42:31,468 AND HE HAS PERFORMED, MADE MANY 6249 04:42:31,468 --> 04:42:37,173 CRUCIAL DISCOVERIES PURSUING THE 6250 04:42:37,173 --> 04:42:40,277 VIROLOGY OF THE ALPHA 6251 04:42:40,277 --> 04:42:42,712 RETROVIRUSES AND THEN ACTUALLY 6252 04:42:42,712 --> 04:42:45,248 HE WAS A PIONEER IN GOING AROUND 6253 04:42:45,248 --> 04:42:47,817 AND DIGGING VIRUSES OUT OF 6254 04:42:47,817 --> 04:42:48,885 PEOPLE'S FREEZERS AND 6255 04:42:48,885 --> 04:42:52,756 DISCOVERING NEW ONCOGENES THAT 6256 04:42:52,756 --> 04:42:52,922 WAY. 6257 04:42:52,922 --> 04:42:56,192 IN MORE RECENT YEARS, I THINK 6258 04:42:56,192 --> 04:43:00,130 HE'S SPECIALIZED IN LIPID 6259 04:43:00,130 --> 04:43:04,434 SIGNALING, WHICH REALLY ARISES 6260 04:43:04,434 --> 04:43:08,805 FROM HIS DISCOVERY OF YET 6261 04:43:08,805 --> 04:43:12,042 UNEXPECTED NEW ONCOGENES AND 6262 04:43:12,042 --> 04:43:16,379 CONSIDERING THE POSSIBLE 6263 04:43:16,379 --> 04:43:18,648 APPLICATIONS OF HIS DISCOVERIES 6264 04:43:18,648 --> 04:43:23,586 ON LIPID SIGNALING IN CANCER. 6265 04:43:23,586 --> 04:43:24,487 WITHOUT FURTHER ADO HERE, 6266 04:43:24,487 --> 04:43:28,758 WELCOME TO THE MEETING. 6267 04:43:28,758 --> 04:43:29,926 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND AND 6268 04:43:29,926 --> 04:43:32,295 GENEROUS INTRODUCTION. 6269 04:43:32,295 --> 04:43:34,764 I AM HONORED AND DELIGHTED TO 6270 04:43:34,764 --> 04:43:38,268 SPEAK AT THE SYMPOSIUM 6271 04:43:38,268 --> 04:43:40,704 CELEBRATING ALAN REIN'S WORK. 6272 04:43:40,704 --> 04:43:42,472 ALAN AND I SHARE EARLY 6273 04:43:42,472 --> 04:43:45,075 SCIENTIFIC ROOTS, AS YOU JUST 6274 04:43:45,075 --> 04:43:45,308 LEARNED. 6275 04:43:45,308 --> 04:43:50,747 WE WERE BOTH WORKING ON THE 6276 04:43:50,747 --> 04:43:51,681 NEUROSARCOMA VIRUS IN THE SAME 6277 04:43:51,681 --> 04:43:53,650 LAB IN BERKELEY. 6278 04:43:53,650 --> 04:43:55,885 IN THIS SYMPOSIUM I WILL BE THE 6279 04:43:55,885 --> 04:43:58,288 ONLY SPEAKER TALKING MAINLY 6280 04:43:58,288 --> 04:44:02,659 ABOUT AVIAN VIRUSES, AND AS THE 6281 04:44:02,659 --> 04:44:04,427 LAST SPEAKER, I HAVE DECIDED TO 6282 04:44:04,427 --> 04:44:07,597 TAKE A LIGHT HEARTED APPROACH 6283 04:44:07,597 --> 04:44:11,401 AND DISTILL IT INTO SEVEN 6284 04:44:11,401 --> 04:44:13,803 SIMPLIFIED LESSONS LEARNED 6285 04:44:13,803 --> 04:44:15,238 DURING A LIFELONG SCIENTIFIC 6286 04:44:15,238 --> 04:44:21,611 EDUCATION. 6287 04:44:21,611 --> 04:44:24,114 I NEED TO EMPHASIZE THESE ARE 6288 04:44:24,114 --> 04:44:25,014 LESSONS LEARNED. 6289 04:44:25,014 --> 04:44:27,384 THEY ARE NOT MEANT AS CAREER 6290 04:44:27,384 --> 04:44:27,684 ADVICE. 6291 04:44:27,684 --> 04:44:38,228 SO LET ME BEGIN SCREEN SHARING. 6292 04:45:02,485 --> 04:45:03,787 LESSON NUMBER ONE, YOU SHOULD 6293 04:45:03,787 --> 04:45:05,622 JOIN AN EMERGING, NOVEL FIELD, 6294 04:45:05,622 --> 04:45:08,091 AND APPLY NEW CONCEPTS AND 6295 04:45:08,091 --> 04:45:09,726 GENERATE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. 6296 04:45:09,726 --> 04:45:11,060 DON'T JOIN A MATURE FIELD. 6297 04:45:11,060 --> 04:45:12,996 I THINK ALL OF YOU HAVE APPLIED 6298 04:45:12,996 --> 04:45:19,269 THAT LESSON IN YOUR CAREERS WHEN 6299 04:45:19,269 --> 04:45:22,005 YOU JOINED HIV. 6300 04:45:22,005 --> 04:45:25,341 THE EMERGING FIELD OF MY TIME 6301 04:45:25,341 --> 04:45:28,278 WAS A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS FOR 6302 04:45:28,278 --> 04:45:30,980 TUMOR VIRUS REPLICATION AND A 6303 04:45:30,980 --> 04:45:31,915 VIRUS-INDUCED CELLULAR 6304 04:45:31,915 --> 04:45:32,282 TRANSFORMATION. 6305 04:45:32,282 --> 04:45:37,654 THAT IS WORK THAT START ED AT CL 6306 04:45:37,654 --> 04:45:45,528 TECH WITH HARRY RUBIN AND HOWARD 6307 04:45:45,528 --> 04:45:45,762 TENEMAN. 6308 04:45:45,762 --> 04:45:47,864 AND THE BASIC TECHNOLOGY WAS THE 6309 04:45:47,864 --> 04:45:52,035 FOCUS ASSAY OF ROUS SARCOMA 6310 04:45:52,035 --> 04:45:52,235 VIRUS. 6311 04:45:52,235 --> 04:45:56,306 THE FIRST ASSAY THAT ALLOWED YOU 6312 04:45:56,306 --> 04:45:59,142 TO QUANTIFY ONCOGENIC 6313 04:45:59,142 --> 04:45:59,609 TRANSFORMATION. 6314 04:45:59,609 --> 04:46:02,879 HERE YOU SEE AN ILLUSTRATION OF 6315 04:46:02,879 --> 04:46:05,648 THIS NORMAL AVIAN FIBROBLAST TO 6316 04:46:05,648 --> 04:46:09,986 THE LEFT AND ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS 6317 04:46:09,986 --> 04:46:11,688 TRANSFORMED FIBROBLASTS TO THE 6318 04:46:11,688 --> 04:46:11,888 RIGHT. 6319 04:46:11,888 --> 04:46:14,657 YOU COULD REALLY HAVE THIS 6320 04:46:14,657 --> 04:46:18,428 TRANSFORMATION IN VERY DISCRETE 6321 04:46:18,428 --> 04:46:20,730 FOCI, AND THE FOCI, A SINGLE 6322 04:46:20,730 --> 04:46:22,398 FOCUS WAS THE RESULT OF 6323 04:46:22,398 --> 04:46:25,134 INFECTION WITH A SINGLE VIRAL 6324 04:46:25,134 --> 04:46:25,401 PARTICLE. 6325 04:46:25,401 --> 04:46:26,536 SO IT WAS QUANTITATIVE FROM THE 6326 04:46:26,536 --> 04:46:36,646 START. 6327 04:46:37,714 --> 04:46:39,082 IT WAS BROUGHT ON BY THE WORK 6328 04:46:39,082 --> 04:46:41,217 BEING DONE AT CAL TECH. 6329 04:46:41,217 --> 04:46:43,353 LESSON NUMBER 2, TRUST YOUR 6330 04:46:43,353 --> 04:46:43,620 INSTINCTS. 6331 04:46:43,620 --> 04:46:45,688 CHICKEN TUMOR VIRUSES ARE 6332 04:46:45,688 --> 04:46:47,223 SIGNIFICANT FOR HUMAN MEDICINE. 6333 04:46:47,223 --> 04:46:49,459 THERE WAS ALWAYS THIS TENDENCY 6334 04:46:49,459 --> 04:46:53,062 OF DOWNPLAYING THE AVIAN VIRUSES 6335 04:46:53,062 --> 04:46:55,231 BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY 6336 04:46:55,231 --> 04:47:05,675 BE RELEVANT FOR HUMANS IN 6337 04:47:11,915 --> 04:47:12,115 MEDICINE. 6338 04:47:12,115 --> 04:47:13,650 SO THE FIRST IMPORTANT FEATURE 6339 04:47:13,650 --> 04:47:16,286 THAT SETS AVIAN TUMOR VIRUSES 6340 04:47:16,286 --> 04:47:19,822 APART IS THAT MOST ROUS SARCOMA 6341 04:47:19,822 --> 04:47:22,258 VIRUSES ARE NON-DEFECTIVE. 6342 04:47:22,258 --> 04:47:24,127 THEY CONTAIN ALL THE VIRAL GENES 6343 04:47:24,127 --> 04:47:25,828 PLUS THE ONCOGENE. 6344 04:47:25,828 --> 04:47:28,498 THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN DO 6345 04:47:28,498 --> 04:47:39,042 GENETICS IN A CONVENTIONAL WAY. 6346 04:47:39,309 --> 04:47:42,645 AND ONLY AFTER THE ROUS SARCOMA 6347 04:47:42,645 --> 04:47:45,515 VIRUS WAS FOUND TO BE 6348 04:47:45,515 --> 04:47:49,485 NON-DEFECTIVE WAS A GENETIC 6349 04:47:49,485 --> 04:47:51,120 APPROACH TO THIS GENOME 6350 04:47:51,120 --> 04:47:51,621 POSSIBLE. 6351 04:47:51,621 --> 04:47:53,156 AND THE SECOND ADVANTAGE IS 6352 04:47:53,156 --> 04:47:56,926 AVIAN RETROVIRUSES USE TEN 6353 04:47:56,926 --> 04:47:58,962 DIFFERENT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, 6354 04:47:58,962 --> 04:48:02,098 AND IT GIVES YOU ENORMOUS 6355 04:48:02,098 --> 04:48:04,267 RICHNESS AND WEALTH OF ALL KINDS 6356 04:48:04,267 --> 04:48:09,806 OF TOOLS AND APPROACHES. 6357 04:48:09,806 --> 04:48:12,575 EACH GLYCOPROTEIN TARGETS A 6358 04:48:12,575 --> 04:48:16,579 SPECIFIC CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR, 6359 04:48:16,579 --> 04:48:18,581 AND WHEN THE GLYCOPROTEIN 6360 04:48:18,581 --> 04:48:21,317 OCCUPIES THAT RECEPTOR, THAT 6361 04:48:21,317 --> 04:48:24,220 INDUCES VIRAL INTERFERENCE. 6362 04:48:24,220 --> 04:48:27,690 LESSON 3 IS TAKE THESE 6363 04:48:27,690 --> 04:48:32,328 OBSERVATIONS AND BUILD NEW TO 6364 04:48:32,328 --> 04:48:35,164 TOOLS, AND FOR THE AVIAN VIRUSES 6365 04:48:35,164 --> 04:48:39,502 IT WAS CLEAR THAT GLYCOPROTEIN 6366 04:48:39,502 --> 04:48:42,138 ALLOWED YOU TO CLASSIFY THE 6367 04:48:42,138 --> 04:48:52,548 VIRUSES INTO SUBGROUPS. 6368 04:48:52,849 --> 04:48:54,717 THAT WAS COMPLEMENTED BY FINDING 6369 04:48:54,717 --> 04:48:56,152 CHICKEN LINES THAT ARE RESISTANT 6370 04:48:56,152 --> 04:48:58,655 TO INFECTION BY A SINGLE VIRAL 6371 04:48:58,655 --> 04:48:59,922 SUBGROUP BECAUSE THEY LACK THAT 6372 04:48:59,922 --> 04:49:02,425 PARTICULAR RECEPTOR, AND THIS 6373 04:49:02,425 --> 04:49:06,162 INTERPLAY OF VIRAL GLYCOPROTEIN 6374 04:49:06,162 --> 04:49:10,166 AND CELLULAR RECEPTOR COULD BE 6375 04:49:10,166 --> 04:49:11,901 MADE INTO AN ASSAY OF VIRAL 6376 04:49:11,901 --> 04:49:14,170 INTERFERENCE. 6377 04:49:14,170 --> 04:49:16,973 SO YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THIS IS 6378 04:49:16,973 --> 04:49:27,483 65 YEARS AGO, AND IT WAS THE 6379 04:49:32,155 --> 04:49:33,423 BEGINNING OF THE MONOLAYER. 6380 04:49:33,423 --> 04:49:36,726 PLAQUE AND FOCUS ASSAYS HAD ONLY 6381 04:49:36,726 --> 04:49:37,794 BEEN DISCOVERED. 6382 04:49:37,794 --> 04:49:39,128 ANTIBODIES COULD BE GENERATED, 6383 04:49:39,128 --> 04:49:41,764 BUT ONLY FROM ANIMALS, THERE WAS 6384 04:49:41,764 --> 04:49:47,036 NO BIOCHEMISTRY AND NO MOLECULAR 6385 04:49:47,036 --> 04:49:47,403 SEQUENCING. 6386 04:49:47,403 --> 04:49:49,839 LET'S LOOK AT THE VIRAL SURFACE 6387 04:49:49,839 --> 04:49:50,173 GLYCOPROTEINS. 6388 04:49:50,173 --> 04:49:53,309 A LOT OF THEM FROM A TO J, SOME 6389 04:49:53,309 --> 04:49:57,780 ARE EXCLUSIVELY AVIAN HOST 6390 04:49:57,780 --> 04:50:06,789 RANGE, SOME CAN INFECT MAMMALIAN 6391 04:50:06,789 --> 04:50:09,625 CELLS, AND SOME ARE AVIAN 6392 04:50:09,625 --> 04:50:11,627 ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES. 6393 04:50:11,627 --> 04:50:13,029 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THERE IS 6394 04:50:13,029 --> 04:50:16,165 AN EVOLVING SUBGROUP THAT IS THE 6395 04:50:16,165 --> 04:50:17,567 PREDOMINANT PATHOGEN IN THE 6396 04:50:17,567 --> 04:50:19,535 POULTRY INDUSTRY IN CHINA, AND 6397 04:50:19,535 --> 04:50:20,903 IT IS SPREADING VERY RAPIDLY 6398 04:50:20,903 --> 04:50:23,706 OVER THE GLOBE. 6399 04:50:23,706 --> 04:50:29,812 YOU CAN USE THESE SUBGROUPS TO 6400 04:50:29,812 --> 04:50:32,315 DESIGN INTERFERENCE ASSAYS, AND 6401 04:50:32,315 --> 04:50:33,216 INTERFERENCE WITH SUBGROUP 6402 04:50:33,216 --> 04:50:33,483 SPECIFIC. 6403 04:50:33,483 --> 04:50:36,953 IF A CELL IS INFECTED WITH A 6404 04:50:36,953 --> 04:50:40,523 SUBGROUP A VIRUS, IT WOULD BE 6405 04:50:40,523 --> 04:50:42,825 SPECIFICALLY RESISTANT TO A 6406 04:50:42,825 --> 04:50:48,331 CHALLENGE WITH A VIRUS, AND B 6407 04:50:48,331 --> 04:50:53,369 MAKES RESISTANT TO B AND SO ON. 6408 04:50:53,369 --> 04:50:55,071 HERE IS AN EXAMPLE. 6409 04:50:55,071 --> 04:50:58,741 IT'S AN AVIAN LEUKOSIS VIRUS 6410 04:50:58,741 --> 04:51:02,145 THAT INFECTS CELLS WITHOUT ANY 6411 04:51:02,145 --> 04:51:03,179 MORPHOLOGICAL EVENT. 6412 04:51:03,179 --> 04:51:05,581 YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO TELL 6413 04:51:05,581 --> 04:51:08,484 THE INFECTED FROM THE 6414 04:51:08,484 --> 04:51:10,153 NON-INFECTED CULTURES WITHOUT 6415 04:51:10,153 --> 04:51:13,956 ANY SORT OF BIOCHEMICAL TOOLS, 6416 04:51:13,956 --> 04:51:16,459 WHICH DIDN'T EXIST AT THAT TIME. 6417 04:51:16,459 --> 04:51:20,963 BUT IF YOU HAVE AN AVIAN 6418 04:51:20,963 --> 04:51:23,800 LEUKOSIS VIRUS A IN INFECTED 6419 04:51:23,800 --> 04:51:25,635 CELL LINE AND THEN CHALLENGE 6420 04:51:25,635 --> 04:51:28,404 WITH A, YOU WILL EXPERIENCE 6421 04:51:28,404 --> 04:51:28,805 INTERFERENCE. 6422 04:51:28,805 --> 04:51:30,540 THERE'S NO INTERFERENCE WITH 6423 04:51:30,540 --> 04:51:37,246 SUBGROUP B, C, OR D. 6424 04:51:37,246 --> 04:51:40,249 THAT WAS USED IN, I THINK, 6425 04:51:40,249 --> 04:51:43,853 IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT THAT SHOWED 6426 04:51:43,853 --> 04:51:46,889 THAT EARLY DNA SYNTHESIS 6427 04:51:46,889 --> 04:51:48,291 REQUIRED IN RETROVIRAL INFECTION 6428 04:51:48,291 --> 04:51:50,126 IS VIRUS SPECIFIC. 6429 04:51:50,126 --> 04:51:52,228 SO YOU TAKE YOUR CELLS AND 6430 04:51:52,228 --> 04:51:59,135 INFECT THEM WITH RSV A AS ZERO 6431 04:51:59,135 --> 04:51:59,335 HOURS. 6432 04:51:59,335 --> 04:52:02,572 AT 24 HOURS YOU INHIBIT THE DNA 6433 04:52:02,572 --> 04:52:05,074 SYNTHESIS, SO YOU GIVE VIRUS A 6434 04:52:05,074 --> 04:52:07,310 TIME TO MAKE DNA. 6435 04:52:07,310 --> 04:52:11,581 THEN YOU CHALLENGE AT 96 HOURS 6436 04:52:11,581 --> 04:52:17,620 WITH RSV C, AND THEN YOU ANALYZE 6437 04:52:17,620 --> 04:52:20,523 THE PROGENY. 6438 04:52:20,523 --> 04:52:24,060 RSV A CAN BE MADE, BUT RSV C 6439 04:52:24,060 --> 04:52:25,328 CANNOT BE MADE. 6440 04:52:25,328 --> 04:52:27,763 SO THESE TWO VIRUSES CANNOT 6441 04:52:27,763 --> 04:52:31,534 SHARE THE SAME DNA. 6442 04:52:31,534 --> 04:52:34,003 DNA MADE EARLY IN INFECTION IS 6443 04:52:34,003 --> 04:52:36,739 VIRUS SPECIFIC. 6444 04:52:36,739 --> 04:52:47,250 SO THAT BRINGS ME TO LESSON 4. 6445 04:52:50,353 --> 04:52:53,522 YOU SHOULD EARLY ON GET TO KNOW 6446 04:52:53,522 --> 04:52:54,991 PEOPLE IN THE FIELD AND ASK FOR 6447 04:52:54,991 --> 04:52:55,858 THEIR REAGENTS. 6448 04:52:55,858 --> 04:52:58,628 I DID THAT EARLY ON, AND THEY 6449 04:52:58,628 --> 04:53:00,496 TURNED OUT TO BE VERY 6450 04:53:00,496 --> 04:53:00,796 INTERESTING. 6451 04:53:00,796 --> 04:53:03,165 THE PRAGUE STRAIN OF RSV WAS THE 6452 04:53:03,165 --> 04:53:04,400 FIRST, REPRESENTATIVE OF A NEW 6453 04:53:04,400 --> 04:53:14,610 SUBGROUP C. 6454 04:53:18,748 --> 04:53:22,151 THEN I GOT THE CARR-Z IRBGS LBER 6455 04:53:22,151 --> 04:53:23,853 STRAIN OF RSV, AND 6456 04:53:23,853 --> 04:53:25,388 NEUROFIBROMATOSIS A NEW SUBGROUP 6457 04:53:25,388 --> 04:53:25,688 D. 6458 04:53:25,688 --> 04:53:29,558 THEN SCHMIDT-RUPPIN SENT ME HIS 6459 04:53:29,558 --> 04:53:31,160 VIRUS, AND IT WAS ALSO IN 6460 04:53:31,160 --> 04:53:32,261 SUBGROUP D. 6461 04:53:32,261 --> 04:53:36,432 AND THEN SOMEONE SENT ME THE 6462 04:53:36,432 --> 04:53:38,034 SARCOMA VIRUS, WHICH WAS VERY, 6463 04:53:38,034 --> 04:53:40,536 VERY SIMILAR TO OUR SARCOMA 6464 04:53:40,536 --> 04:53:41,170 VIRUS. 6465 04:53:41,170 --> 04:53:44,907 I SUBMITTED IT WAS IN 6466 04:53:44,907 --> 04:53:46,008 CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND CALLED IT 6467 04:53:46,008 --> 04:53:48,311 VIRUS B77 AND ALSO SUBGROUP C. 6468 04:53:48,311 --> 04:53:50,713 SO YOU COULD ENRICH YOUR 6469 04:53:50,713 --> 04:53:52,949 INVENTORY AND YOUR TOOLS BY 6470 04:53:52,949 --> 04:53:53,582 COLLECTING SOME VIRUSES FROM 6471 04:53:53,582 --> 04:53:59,555 OTHER LABS. 6472 04:53:59,555 --> 04:54:01,724 THAT BRINGS ME TO LESSON 5, 6473 04:54:01,724 --> 04:54:02,858 ATTRACT GREAT POST DOCS. 6474 04:54:02,858 --> 04:54:05,628 I WANT TO BRIEFLY MENTION THREE 6475 04:54:05,628 --> 04:54:08,364 EXAMP 6476 04:54:08,364 --> 04:54:09,265 EXAMPLES. 6477 04:54:09,265 --> 04:54:11,334 I'LL START AT THE BOTTOM BECAUSE 6478 04:54:11,334 --> 04:54:13,502 IT'S AN HIV MEETING AND YOU ALL 6479 04:54:13,502 --> 04:54:15,104 WILL KNOW ERIC HUNTER. 6480 04:54:15,104 --> 04:54:18,607 YOU ALSO WILL KNOW ROBIN WEISS 6481 04:54:18,607 --> 04:54:22,645 BECAUSE HE ALSO WORKED WITH HIV. 6482 04:54:22,645 --> 04:54:27,750 AND THEN THERE'S KUMAO 6483 04:54:27,750 --> 04:54:29,151 TOYOSHIMA. 6484 04:54:29,151 --> 04:54:30,953 KUMAO WAS ESSENTIALLY THE 6485 04:54:30,953 --> 04:54:32,955 EMPEROR OF TUMOR VIROLOGY IN 6486 04:54:32,955 --> 04:54:34,190 JAPAN. 6487 04:54:34,190 --> 04:54:37,626 HE RECEIVED THE HIGHEST 6488 04:54:37,626 --> 04:54:39,929 DISTINCTION AWARD FROM THE 6489 04:54:39,929 --> 04:54:40,629 JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. 6490 04:54:40,629 --> 04:54:44,266 HE PASSED AWAY TWO YEARS AGO. 6491 04:54:44,266 --> 04:54:46,335 ROBIN WEISS IS A MEMBER OF THE 6492 04:54:46,335 --> 04:54:50,306 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 6493 04:54:50,306 --> 04:54:50,473 USA. 6494 04:54:50,473 --> 04:54:52,441 HE IS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN 6495 04:54:52,441 --> 04:54:53,709 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND OF 6496 04:54:53,709 --> 04:54:54,710 COURSE HE IS A MEMBER OF THE 6497 04:54:54,710 --> 04:54:58,280 ROYAL SOCIETY IN LONDON. 6498 04:54:58,280 --> 04:55:04,754 ERIC HUNTER STILL VERY ACTIVE, 6499 04:55:04,754 --> 04:55:06,422 AND HE COMES TO A MEETING EVERY 6500 04:55:06,422 --> 04:55:08,324 YEAR IN JANUARY OUT HERE IN SAN 6501 04:55:08,324 --> 04:55:09,525 DIEGO, AND WE ALWAYS MEET AND 6502 04:55:09,525 --> 04:55:14,864 HAVE DINNER TOGETHER. 6503 04:55:14,864 --> 04:55:17,299 LESSON 6 IS TO INTERROGATE 6504 04:55:17,299 --> 04:55:19,802 NATURE, GO OUT AND COLLECT 6505 04:55:19,802 --> 04:55:22,471 VIRUSES FROM THE ANIMAL SOURCE. 6506 04:55:22,471 --> 04:55:24,807 SO I WENT INTO THESE CHICKEN 6507 04:55:24,807 --> 04:55:27,143 SLAUGHTER HOUSES WITH PERMISSION 6508 04:55:27,143 --> 04:55:34,283 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 6509 04:55:34,283 --> 04:55:36,218 AND COLLECTED TUMORS AND 6510 04:55:36,218 --> 04:55:37,653 ISOLATES VIRUSES. 6511 04:55:37,653 --> 04:55:40,856 I ALSO GOT VIRUSES FROM OTHER 6512 04:55:40,856 --> 04:55:46,429 COLLECTORS SOME EXAMPLES OF 6513 04:55:46,429 --> 04:55:49,298 IMPORTANT ONCOGENES THAT EMERGED 6514 04:55:49,298 --> 04:55:53,102 FROM THESE SPONTANEOUS TUMORS, 6515 04:55:53,102 --> 04:55:57,206 MC29, WHICH IS AN AVIAN LEUKEMIA 6516 04:55:57,206 --> 04:56:00,142 VIRUS ISOLATED OR ACTUALLY 6517 04:56:00,142 --> 04:56:05,247 COLLECTED BY JOE BEARD AT DUKE 6518 04:56:05,247 --> 04:56:09,618 UNIVERSITY THAT CONTAINED MYC. 6519 04:56:09,618 --> 04:56:12,188 MYC IS PERHAPS THE EMPEROR OF 6520 04:56:12,188 --> 04:56:13,689 ONCOGENES, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT 6521 04:56:13,689 --> 04:56:14,857 IN HUMAN MEDICINE. 6522 04:56:14,857 --> 04:56:18,828 THEN AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS 17 6523 04:56:18,828 --> 04:56:20,796 YIELDED JUN, AN IMPORTANT 6524 04:56:20,796 --> 04:56:25,568 REGULATOR OF TRANSCRIPTION. 6525 04:56:25,568 --> 04:56:29,205 AN NOT COGENE THAT IS DERIVED 6526 04:56:29,205 --> 04:56:32,341 FROM OTHER AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS 6527 04:56:32,341 --> 04:56:34,343 IS QIN. 6528 04:56:34,343 --> 04:56:36,612 IT IS NOW CALLED FOX G. 6529 04:56:36,612 --> 04:56:38,914 IT WAS THE FIRST EXAMPLE OF A 6530 04:56:38,914 --> 04:56:43,085 FOX PROTEIN ISOLATED FROM A 6531 04:56:43,085 --> 04:56:43,652 VERTEBRATE. 6532 04:56:43,652 --> 04:56:48,757 AND FINALLY, AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS 6533 04:56:48,757 --> 04:56:53,095 16 YIELDED PI 3-KINASE. 6534 04:56:53,095 --> 04:56:54,830 SO THAT BRINGS ME TO THE FINAL 6535 04:56:54,830 --> 04:56:58,534 LESSON, WHICH IS LESSON 7, 6536 04:56:58,534 --> 04:56:59,068 COLLABORATE, COLLABORATE, 6537 04:56:59,068 --> 04:57:03,639 COLLABORATE. 6538 04:57:03,639 --> 04:57:05,174 SCIENCE IS DRIVEN BY ADVANCES IN 6539 04:57:05,174 --> 04:57:05,574 TECHNOLOGY. 6540 04:57:05,574 --> 04:57:07,610 YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MASTER 6541 04:57:07,610 --> 04:57:08,911 ALL NEW TECHNIQUES. 6542 04:57:08,911 --> 04:57:09,512 YOU HAVE TO COLLABORATE WITH 6543 04:57:09,512 --> 04:57:16,352 EXPERTS. 6544 04:57:16,352 --> 04:57:17,686 I'D LIKE TO CITE BRIEFLY THREE 6545 04:57:17,686 --> 04:57:17,953 EXAMPLES. 6546 04:57:17,953 --> 04:57:20,222 ONE IS THE DISCOVERY OF THE 6547 04:57:20,222 --> 04:57:26,095 FIRST ONCOGENE COLLABORATION. 6548 04:57:26,095 --> 04:57:27,029 THE SECOND IS -- OOPS. 6549 04:57:27,029 --> 04:57:37,306 LET ME GO BACK. 6550 04:57:40,242 --> 04:57:43,646 GENERATING THE SRC PROBE BY 6551 04:57:43,646 --> 04:57:47,049 SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION. 6552 04:57:47,049 --> 04:57:51,954 IT'S A CO-STUDY WITH THE BISHOP 6553 04:57:51,954 --> 04:57:54,156 LAB, AND ONE OF THE MAJOR FORCES 6554 04:57:54,156 --> 04:57:55,791 IN THIS LAB WAS STEPHEN HUGHES. 6555 04:57:55,791 --> 04:57:57,760 SO I WANT TO SAY HI TO STEVE. 6556 04:57:57,760 --> 04:57:58,394 HE IS PROBABLY STILL IN THE 6557 04:57:58,394 --> 04:58:03,599 AUDIENCE. 6558 04:58:03,599 --> 04:58:07,570 AND THE FINAL IS ON THE CRYO-EM 6559 04:58:07,570 --> 04:58:10,005 STRUCTURE OF WILD TYPE AND 6560 04:58:10,005 --> 04:58:16,645 MUTANT PI 3-KINASES. 6561 04:58:16,645 --> 04:58:18,914 SO THE SRC PARADIGM IS REALLY 6562 04:58:18,914 --> 04:58:21,417 BASED ON THE NON-DEFECTIVENESS 6563 04:58:21,417 --> 04:58:24,653 OF ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS. 6564 04:58:24,653 --> 04:58:26,689 THIS VIRUS HIGHLY SIMPLIFIED 6565 04:58:26,689 --> 04:58:28,424 GENOME STRUCTURE CONTAINS ALL 6566 04:58:28,424 --> 04:58:32,294 THE BIOGENES PLUS SRC. 6567 04:58:32,294 --> 04:58:37,633 AND SRC IS LOST IN REPLICATION, 6568 04:58:37,633 --> 04:58:43,939 AND THIS DELETION MUTANT 6569 04:58:43,939 --> 04:58:46,475 ACTUALLY REPLICATES FASTER THAN 6570 04:58:46,475 --> 04:58:50,446 THE ORIGINAL COMPLETE ROUS 6571 04:58:50,446 --> 04:58:51,614 SARCOMA VIRUS. 6572 04:58:51,614 --> 04:58:53,115 EVENTUALLY YOU CAN SEPARATE 6573 04:58:53,115 --> 04:58:55,484 DELETION FROM TRANSFORMING 6574 04:58:55,484 --> 04:58:55,684 VIRUS. 6575 04:58:55,684 --> 04:58:57,953 IF YOU THEN COMPARE SIZE OF RNA, 6576 04:58:57,953 --> 04:58:59,588 YOU'LL FIND THAT THE RNA OF THE 6577 04:58:59,588 --> 04:59:01,423 TRANSFORMING VIRUS IS LARGER 6578 04:59:01,423 --> 04:59:03,926 THAN THE RNA OF THE 6579 04:59:03,926 --> 04:59:06,562 NON-TRANSFORMING VIRUS. 6580 04:59:06,562 --> 04:59:08,764 THE CONCLUSION, SUGGESTED 6581 04:59:08,764 --> 04:59:09,798 CONCLUSION IS THAT THE 6582 04:59:09,798 --> 04:59:13,936 DIFFERENCE IS IN THE ONCOGENIC 6583 04:59:13,936 --> 04:59:16,138 TRANSFORMATION IN THE ONCOGENE. 6584 04:59:16,138 --> 04:59:19,842 THAT BRINGS ME TO THE 6585 04:59:19,842 --> 04:59:20,542 SUBTRAC 6586 04:59:20,542 --> 04:59:23,912 SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION THAT 6587 04:59:23,912 --> 04:59:26,715 BISHOP PERFORMED WITH THIS SAME 6588 04:59:26,715 --> 04:59:27,449 SET OF VIRUSES. 6589 04:59:27,449 --> 04:59:30,452 YOU HAVE THE RNA OF A 6590 04:59:30,452 --> 04:59:33,055 NON-DEFECTIVE ROUS SARCOMA 6591 04:59:33,055 --> 04:59:33,255 VIRUS. 6592 04:59:33,255 --> 04:59:36,125 YOU TRANSCRIBE IT WITH REVERSE 6593 04:59:36,125 --> 04:59:37,860 TRANSCRIPTORS INTO SINGLE STRAND 6594 04:59:37,860 --> 04:59:40,429 DNA, USUALLY IN SMALL PIECES, 6595 04:59:40,429 --> 04:59:45,567 AND HYBRIDIZE THAT RNA IN 6596 04:59:45,567 --> 04:59:46,468 TRANSFORMATION-DEFECTIVE ROUS 6597 04:59:46,468 --> 04:59:47,503 SARCOMA VIRUS GENOME. 6598 04:59:47,503 --> 04:59:50,739 THAT CAPTURES ALL THE VIRAL 6599 04:59:50,739 --> 04:59:54,943 SEQUENCES, AND YOU ARE LEFT WITH 6600 04:59:54,943 --> 04:59:56,912 SINGLE STRAND OF DNA THAT IS 6601 04:59:56,912 --> 04:59:59,348 SPECIFIC FOR THE ONCOGENE. 6602 04:59:59,348 --> 05:00:02,751 THAT'S THE SRC ROPE. 6603 05:00:02,751 --> 05:00:04,853 AND THAT LED TO THIS REALLY 6604 05:00:04,853 --> 05:00:06,655 IMPORTANT CONCLUSION THAT ALL 6605 05:00:06,655 --> 05:00:09,425 RETROVIRAL ONCOGENES ARE 6606 05:00:09,425 --> 05:00:10,826 CELLULAR GENES ARE HITCHHIKERS 6607 05:00:10,826 --> 05:00:15,898 ON THE VIRAL GENOME. 6608 05:00:15,898 --> 05:00:17,533 THAT BRINGS ME TO THE 6609 05:00:17,533 --> 05:00:24,973 COLLABORATION OF PI3-KINASE. 6610 05:00:24,973 --> 05:00:29,978 PI3-KINASE IS A DIMERIC LIPID 6611 05:00:29,978 --> 05:00:30,212 KINASE. 6612 05:00:30,212 --> 05:00:33,115 THE ISOFORM IMPORTANT FOR HUMAN 6613 05:00:33,115 --> 05:00:36,652 CANCER IS THE A ISOFORM. 6614 05:00:36,652 --> 05:00:38,587 IT CONSISTS OF CATALYTIC 6615 05:00:38,587 --> 05:00:40,089 SUBUNITS AND REGULATORY 6616 05:00:40,089 --> 05:00:40,356 SUBUNITS. 6617 05:00:40,356 --> 05:00:41,824 THERE HAVE BEEN MANY, MANY 6618 05:00:41,824 --> 05:00:44,660 ATTEMPTS TO GET THE CRYO-M 6619 05:00:44,660 --> 05:00:46,028 STRUCTURE OF THAT PROTEIN, AND 6620 05:00:46,028 --> 05:00:47,529 ALL OF THEM FAILED. 6621 05:00:47,529 --> 05:00:50,299 WHEN WE STARTED, WE WERE TOLD TO 6622 05:00:50,299 --> 05:00:52,468 FORGET ABOUT IT, THAT WE WERE 6623 05:00:52,468 --> 05:00:56,972 NEW BYES IN THIS FIELD, WE WOULD 6624 05:00:56,972 --> 05:00:57,940 NEVER SUCCEED BECAUSE MANY OF 6625 05:00:57,940 --> 05:01:00,008 THE REAL EXPERTS HAD NOT BEEN 6626 05:01:00,008 --> 05:01:06,348 ABLE TO DO IT. 6627 05:01:06,348 --> 05:01:07,983 BUT THAT ADVICE IGNORED THE FACT 6628 05:01:07,983 --> 05:01:11,653 THAT IN THE U.S. ACCESS TO 6629 05:01:11,653 --> 05:01:15,557 CRYO-EM IS VERY LIMITED AND VERY 6630 05:01:15,557 --> 05:01:17,760 EXPENSIVE, AND WE COULDN'T GET 6631 05:01:17,760 --> 05:01:22,564 ENOUGH TIME IN CRYO-EM SCRIPTS 6632 05:01:22,564 --> 05:01:24,166 TO DO THAT WORK. 6633 05:01:24,166 --> 05:01:25,534 SO EVENTUALLY I GOT TOGETHER 6634 05:01:25,534 --> 05:01:29,905 WITH A FRIEND IN SHANGHAI, MING 6635 05:01:29,905 --> 05:01:31,874 HOO WON, AND WE DECIDED TO DO IT 6636 05:01:31,874 --> 05:01:33,375 HERE, THREE SCOPES, UNLIMITED 6637 05:01:33,375 --> 05:01:36,011 TIME, WE COULD TRIAL AND ERROR 6638 05:01:36,011 --> 05:01:39,281 APPROACH IT, USE TRIAL AND ERROR 6639 05:01:39,281 --> 05:01:42,317 APPROACHES TO SEE WHAT WORKS. 6640 05:01:42,317 --> 05:01:44,520 THERE WERE LOTS OF DIFFICULTIES. 6641 05:01:44,520 --> 05:01:50,092 FIRST OF ALL, NCI WOULDN'T 6642 05:01:50,092 --> 05:01:51,527 APPROVE, AND WE HAD TO BEG AND 6643 05:01:51,527 --> 05:01:55,063 BEG AND BEG, AND EVENTUALLY OUR 6644 05:01:55,063 --> 05:01:58,233 REQUEST WENT UP ALL THE WAY TO 6645 05:01:58,233 --> 05:02:02,070 THE EMBASSY IN BEIJING, THE U.S. 6646 05:02:02,070 --> 05:02:04,173 EMBASSY IN BEIJING, AND THEY 6647 05:02:04,173 --> 05:02:06,275 SAID, OKAY, YOU CAN GO AHEAD. 6648 05:02:06,275 --> 05:02:09,044 THEN WE GOT APPROVAL, AND WE 6649 05:02:09,044 --> 05:02:12,581 STARTED WORK WITH THE SHANGHAI 6650 05:02:12,581 --> 05:02:13,215 TEAM. 6651 05:02:13,215 --> 05:02:15,350 MONTHS OF MONTHS OF MONTHS OF NO 6652 05:02:15,350 --> 05:02:17,519 SUCCESS, AND FINALLY WE HIT THE 6653 05:02:17,519 --> 05:02:19,755 RIGHT FREEZING CONDITIONS, THE 6654 05:02:19,755 --> 05:02:21,223 RIGHT BUFFER CONDITIONS, AND WE 6655 05:02:21,223 --> 05:02:24,059 WERE SUCCESSFUL. 6656 05:02:24,059 --> 05:02:27,129 I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU THE 6657 05:02:27,129 --> 05:02:34,470 ELECTRON DENSITY MAP OF P 6658 05:02:34,470 --> 05:02:34,770 PI3-KINASE. 6659 05:02:34,770 --> 05:02:36,104 WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY EACH OF 6660 05:02:36,104 --> 05:02:38,373 THE DOMAINS OF THESE PROTEINS, 6661 05:02:38,373 --> 05:02:40,542 AND NOT ONLY THE WILD TYPE, BUT 6662 05:02:40,542 --> 05:02:41,810 ALSO THE CANCER ASSOCIATED 6663 05:02:41,810 --> 05:02:44,313 MUTANTS, AND WE USED THAT 6664 05:02:44,313 --> 05:02:48,083 INFORMATION TO GENERATE 6665 05:02:48,083 --> 05:02:49,485 MUTANT-SPECIFIC LIGANDS THAT 6666 05:02:49,485 --> 05:02:50,452 COULD BE DEVELOPED INTO 6667 05:02:50,452 --> 05:02:52,821 INHIBITORS. 6668 05:02:52,821 --> 05:02:55,657 THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANT TO SAY, 6669 05:02:55,657 --> 05:02:58,327 AND I WANT TO END BY SAYING 6670 05:02:58,327 --> 05:02:59,361 HAPPY RETIREMENT, ALAN. 6671 05:02:59,361 --> 05:03:09,538 THANK YOU. 6672 05:03:31,760 --> 05:03:32,728 >> THANK YOU, PETER. 6673 05:03:32,728 --> 05:03:34,363 THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL TALK. 6674 05:03:34,363 --> 05:03:35,297 EXCELLENT ADVICE TO ALL YOU 6675 05:03:35,297 --> 05:03:41,236 YOUNG KIDS DOWN THERE. 6676 05:03:41,236 --> 05:03:43,138 I'M WISHING YOU REALLY HAPPY, 6677 05:03:43,138 --> 05:03:49,578 PRODUCTIVE YEARS AHEAD. 6678 05:03:49,578 --> 05:03:51,980 AND WHAT'S NEXT ON THE PROGRAM 6679 05:03:51,980 --> 05:04:02,324 IS CLOSING REMARKS. 6680 05:04:09,298 --> 05:04:10,666 I HAVE A FEW THINGS I WANT TO 6681 05:04:10,666 --> 05:04:10,832 SAY. 6682 05:04:10,832 --> 05:04:12,901 FIRST OF ALL, I COULD NEVER 6683 05:04:12,901 --> 05:04:14,670 BELIEVE THAT I WOULD LIVE TO SEE 6684 05:04:14,670 --> 05:04:15,571 AN EVENT LIKE THIS. 6685 05:04:15,571 --> 05:04:18,006 I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE KIND 6686 05:04:18,006 --> 05:04:20,175 THINGS THAT EVERYONE HAS SAID 6687 05:04:20,175 --> 05:04:28,650 AND THE FACT THAT AND THE EFFORT 6688 05:04:28,650 --> 05:04:30,986 THAT WAS MADE TO PRODUCE THIS 6689 05:04:30,986 --> 05:04:31,453 EVENT. 6690 05:04:31,453 --> 05:04:33,021 THANK YOU TO YOU ALL FOR COMING. 6691 05:04:33,021 --> 05:04:34,823 I SPECIFICALLY WANT TO THANK THE 6692 05:04:34,823 --> 05:04:36,725 PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS EVENT 6693 05:04:36,725 --> 05:04:36,992 POSSIBLE. 6694 05:04:36,992 --> 05:04:38,427 THAT'S ERIC WHO SUGGESTED IT, 6695 05:04:38,427 --> 05:04:40,495 WHICH AGAIN WAS A COMPLETE 6696 05:04:40,495 --> 05:04:42,731 SURPR 6697 05:04:42,731 --> 05:04:44,499 SURPRISE, AND SPECIFICALLY ANNA 6698 05:04:44,499 --> 05:04:47,869 NORRIS AND ALSO TERRY BURDETT. 6699 05:04:47,869 --> 05:04:50,305 NO DOUBT OTHER PEOPLE BEHIND THE 6700 05:04:50,305 --> 05:04:51,306 SCENES WHOSE NAMES I MAY NOT 6701 05:04:51,306 --> 05:04:59,815 EVEN KNOW. 6702 05:04:59,815 --> 05:05:01,083 SECONDLY, I WANT TO GIVE CREDIT 6703 05:05:01,083 --> 05:05:03,852 TO A NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE FOR 6704 05:05:03,852 --> 05:05:07,522 DIFFERENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO MY 6705 05:05:07,522 --> 05:05:09,858 TRAJECTORY AND TO THE FACT THAT 6706 05:05:09,858 --> 05:05:13,962 I'M HERE TODAY. 6707 05:05:13,962 --> 05:05:17,099 I HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE IN MY 6708 05:05:17,099 --> 05:05:21,103 CHOICE OF BOSSES, AND I WANTED 6709 05:05:21,103 --> 05:05:23,972 TO MENTION, FIRST OF ALL, BOB 6710 05:05:23,972 --> 05:05:29,277 BASSEN, WHO INTRODUCED ME TO THE 6711 05:05:29,277 --> 05:05:31,279 MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS AND WAS 6712 05:05:31,279 --> 05:05:33,782 ALWAYS GENEROUS AND SUPPORTIVE. 6713 05:05:33,782 --> 05:05:35,984 I'M SURE FRANCOIS WOULD AGREE. 6714 05:05:35,984 --> 05:05:38,820 SHE MAY HAVE GONE TO BED BY NOW, 6715 05:05:38,820 --> 05:05:40,222 BUT ANYWAY, I'M SURE SHE WOULD 6716 05:05:40,222 --> 05:05:42,524 AGREE. 6717 05:05:42,524 --> 05:05:46,161 WE WERE ALL VERY CLOSE TO BOB. 6718 05:05:46,161 --> 05:05:50,065 HE AND, AS I THINK FRANCOIS 6719 05:05:50,065 --> 05:05:52,100 MENTIONED, HE DIED A YEAR AGO 6720 05:05:52,100 --> 05:05:53,368 QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY. 6721 05:05:53,368 --> 05:06:03,512 SO I'M SORRY HE'S NOT HERE. 6722 05:06:03,512 --> 05:06:07,449 AFTER BOB, I WAS HIRED IN 6723 05:06:07,449 --> 05:06:11,019 FREDERICK BY REGULAN, WHO AGAIN 6724 05:06:11,019 --> 05:06:12,721 WAS HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE AND 6725 05:06:12,721 --> 05:06:14,456 HELPED ESTABLISH GOOD RESEARCH 6726 05:06:14,456 --> 05:06:15,691 HERE IN FREDERICK. 6727 05:06:15,691 --> 05:06:26,201 THEN GEORGE VANDRUD, WHO PUT 6728 05:06:26,568 --> 05:06:30,906 FREDERICK ON THE MAP AS A FIRST 6729 05:06:30,906 --> 05:06:32,574 CLASS SITE FOR RESEARCH. 6730 05:06:32,574 --> 05:06:34,943 GEORGE HAD A VERY BROAD VISION 6731 05:06:34,943 --> 05:06:45,487 ABOUT CANCER RESEARCH AND HOW TO 6732 05:06:55,130 --> 05:06:55,464 FOSTER RESEARCH. 6733 05:06:55,464 --> 05:06:57,165 ONE OF THE THINGS GEORGE DID WAS 6734 05:06:57,165 --> 05:06:58,533 FOSTER THE CREATION OF THE DRP, 6735 05:06:58,533 --> 05:07:00,769 AND THAT WAS REALLY THE CREATION 6736 05:07:00,769 --> 05:07:09,177 OF JOHN COFFIN, SO JOHN SET UP 6737 05:07:09,177 --> 05:07:09,778 THE DRP. 6738 05:07:09,778 --> 05:07:10,879 AND STEVE AND I WERE ALREADY 6739 05:07:10,879 --> 05:07:12,681 HERE WHEN THE DRP WAS FORMED. 6740 05:07:12,681 --> 05:07:14,549 EVERYONE ELSE IN THE DRP WAS 6741 05:07:14,549 --> 05:07:16,952 REALLY RECRUITED BY JOHN OR 6742 05:07:16,952 --> 05:07:17,753 SUBSEQUENTLY, BUT MAINLY 6743 05:07:17,753 --> 05:07:23,925 RECRUITED BY JOHN. 6744 05:07:23,925 --> 05:07:27,262 THEN EVENTUALLY JOHN HANDED THE 6745 05:07:27,262 --> 05:07:32,167 BATON TO STEVE, AND EVENTUALLY 6746 05:07:32,167 --> 05:07:33,969 AFTER THAT, STEVE HANDED THE 6747 05:07:33,969 --> 05:07:35,637 BATON TO ERIC, AND ALL THREE OF 6748 05:07:35,637 --> 05:07:38,240 THEM, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, HAVE 6749 05:07:38,240 --> 05:07:42,077 BEEN AGAIN IMMENSELY SUPPORTIVE 6750 05:07:42,077 --> 05:07:46,014 AND HELPFUL AND REALLY FOSTERED 6751 05:07:46,014 --> 05:07:50,485 GOOD RESEARCH AND GOOD FREE 6752 05:07:50,485 --> 05:07:54,389 THINKING. 6753 05:07:54,389 --> 05:08:03,431 SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THEM. 6754 05:08:03,431 --> 05:08:05,167 I ALSO JUST WANT TO MENTION A 6755 05:08:05,167 --> 05:08:07,602 COUPLE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE 6756 05:08:07,602 --> 05:08:08,303 ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE 6757 05:08:08,303 --> 05:08:09,604 RESEARCH IN THE LAB, SO I HAD 6758 05:08:09,604 --> 05:08:12,240 TWO TECHNICIANS, ONE WHO JOINED 6759 05:08:12,240 --> 05:08:16,178 IN 1989 AND ONE WHO JOINED IN 6760 05:08:16,178 --> 05:08:20,649 1990, AND THE ONE WHO JOINED IN 6761 05:08:20,649 --> 05:08:22,818 1989 RETIRED A FEW YEARS AGO, 6762 05:08:22,818 --> 05:08:25,620 JANE MIRRO, AND THE ONE WHO 6763 05:08:25,620 --> 05:08:27,255 JOINED IN 1990 JUST RETIRED 6764 05:08:27,255 --> 05:08:30,025 ABOUT A YEAR AGO, AND SHE IS 6765 05:08:30,025 --> 05:08:39,434 HERE TODAY, THAT'S DIMITRIA 6766 05:08:39,434 --> 05:08:43,238 HARVIN, KNOWN TO US AS MEECH. 6767 05:08:43,238 --> 05:08:44,606 THESE TWO KEPT THE LAB RUNNING 6768 05:08:44,606 --> 05:08:46,074 AND KEPT THE EXPERIMENTS GOING, 6769 05:08:46,074 --> 05:08:47,375 AND REALLY BEAR A LOT OF 6770 05:08:47,375 --> 05:08:48,410 RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE 6771 05:08:48,410 --> 05:08:50,312 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE LAB. 6772 05:08:50,312 --> 05:08:54,716 THEN I MUST MAKE SPECIAL MENTION 6773 05:08:54,716 --> 05:08:59,654 OF SID DABEH, SO HE JOINED THE 6774 05:08:59,654 --> 05:09:08,830 LAB IN 2001, AND HE CAME WITH 6775 05:09:08,830 --> 05:09:10,298 TREMENDOUS EXPERTISE ABOUT 6776 05:09:10,298 --> 05:09:12,267 PROTEIN STRUCTURE, PROTEIN 6777 05:09:12,267 --> 05:09:16,304 FUNCTION, PROTEIN PURIFICATION, 6778 05:09:16,304 --> 05:09:20,242 AND HE HAS REALLY, I THINK, 6779 05:09:20,242 --> 05:09:22,677 PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN ALL 6780 05:09:22,677 --> 05:09:28,283 THE WORK IN THE LAB SINCE HE 6781 05:09:28,283 --> 05:09:29,117 JOINED IN 2001. 6782 05:09:29,117 --> 05:09:30,085 SO MUCH OF THE WORK IN THE LAB 6783 05:09:30,085 --> 05:09:32,520 WAS WORKING DIRECTLY WITH 6784 05:09:32,520 --> 05:09:33,855 PROTEINS PURIFIED FROM BACTERIA. 6785 05:09:33,855 --> 05:09:44,266 THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. 6786 05:09:47,269 --> 05:09:48,169 SHIFT IN DIRECTION OF OUR 6787 05:09:48,169 --> 05:09:50,338 RESEARCH, BUT NOT ALL OF IT. 6788 05:09:50,338 --> 05:09:52,274 SOME OF IT WAS GOOD OLD 6789 05:09:52,274 --> 05:09:53,742 FASHIONED VIROLOGY PERFORMED IN 6790 05:09:53,742 --> 05:09:55,543 THE MILLION CELLS, BUT SID ALSO 6791 05:09:55,543 --> 05:09:58,213 PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE, JUST AS 6792 05:09:58,213 --> 05:10:03,018 ANOTHER CRITICAL THINKER AND 6793 05:10:03,018 --> 05:10:04,386 TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S THE 6794 05:10:04,386 --> 05:10:05,186 RIGHT EXPERIMENT? 6795 05:10:05,186 --> 05:10:06,454 WHAT DOES THIS RESULT MEAN? 6796 05:10:06,454 --> 05:10:14,596 WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? 6797 05:10:14,596 --> 05:10:16,197 SO I WANT EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND 6798 05:10:16,197 --> 05:10:19,134 HOW IMPORTANT SID'S WORK HAS 6799 05:10:19,134 --> 05:10:20,602 BEEN, SID HAS BEEN IN THE 6800 05:10:20,602 --> 05:10:21,670 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE LAB FOR 6801 05:10:21,670 --> 05:10:23,171 THE LAST 20-PLUS YEARS. 6802 05:10:23,171 --> 05:10:25,907 BEYOND THAT, I WANTED TO -- I 6803 05:10:25,907 --> 05:10:32,681 HAVE BEEN, NEEDLESS TO SAY, 6804 05:10:32,681 --> 05:10:38,153 RETROSPECTING, INTROSPECTING, 6805 05:10:38,153 --> 05:10:39,554 HOW DID I GET HERE? 6806 05:10:39,554 --> 05:10:41,556 WHAT LED ME TO THIS JUNCTURE OF 6807 05:10:41,556 --> 05:10:43,391 HAVING SPENT ALL THESE YEARS 6808 05:10:43,391 --> 05:10:44,826 STUDYING WHAT WE NOW CALL 6809 05:10:44,826 --> 05:10:55,070 RETROVIRUSES? 6810 05:10:58,173 --> 05:11:00,108 SO I WILL TAKE A COUPLE OF 6811 05:11:00,108 --> 05:11:01,876 MINUTES TO RETRACE MY STEPS FOR 6812 05:11:01,876 --> 05:11:02,043 YOU. 6813 05:11:02,043 --> 05:11:04,112 I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THEM, AND 6814 05:11:04,112 --> 05:11:05,914 POSSIBLY WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY, 6815 05:11:05,914 --> 05:11:09,084 ALTHOUGH VERY SIMPLISTIC, SIMPLE 6816 05:11:09,084 --> 05:11:12,153 MINDED, NAIVE, MAY NEVERTHELESS 6817 05:11:12,153 --> 05:11:13,855 RESONATE WITH MANY OF YOU. 6818 05:11:13,855 --> 05:11:15,890 SO I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL IN THE 6819 05:11:15,890 --> 05:11:25,767 1950s, AND FOR CONTEXT, THE 6820 05:11:25,767 --> 05:11:26,634 WATSON-CRITZ STRUCTURE, WHICH IS 6821 05:11:26,634 --> 05:11:28,870 A FOUNDATION OF WHAT WE DO EVER 6822 05:11:28,870 --> 05:11:30,105 SINCE, WAS PUBLISHED IN 1953, AS 6823 05:11:30,105 --> 05:11:34,909 YOU KNOW. 6824 05:11:34,909 --> 05:11:37,746 AND I THINK I PROBABLY READ 6825 05:11:37,746 --> 05:11:39,481 ABOUT THE DNA STRUCTURE IN 6826 05:11:39,481 --> 05:11:41,750 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND I TOLD 6827 05:11:41,750 --> 05:11:46,621 MY PARENTS THAT I WANTED TO BE A 6828 05:11:46,621 --> 05:11:46,921 BIOCHEMIST. 6829 05:11:46,921 --> 05:11:48,123 THEY SAID, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE 6830 05:11:48,123 --> 05:11:49,891 A BIOCHEMIST. 6831 05:11:49,891 --> 05:11:52,761 THEY KNEW SOMEONE WHO WAS A 6832 05:11:52,761 --> 05:11:53,061 BIOCHEMIST. 6833 05:11:53,061 --> 05:11:57,699 AND HE SAID, HE TOLD THEM -- 6834 05:11:57,699 --> 05:12:00,435 >> DON'T LET ALAN BE A 6835 05:12:00,435 --> 05:12:00,735 BIOCHEMIST. 6836 05:12:00,735 --> 05:12:03,438 >> DON'T LET ALAN BE A 6837 05:12:03,438 --> 05:12:05,340 BIOCHEMIST. 6838 05:12:05,340 --> 05:12:07,342 BIOCHEMISTRY, HE SAID -- THIS IS 6839 05:12:07,342 --> 05:12:10,612 A QUOTE -- IS A LIFE OF 6840 05:12:10,612 --> 05:12:14,749 PROGRESSIVE POVERTY. 6841 05:12:14,749 --> 05:12:17,419 ALAN SHOULD BE A DOCTOR INSTEAD. 6842 05:12:17,419 --> 05:12:17,786 (LAUGHTER) 6843 05:12:17,786 --> 05:12:21,122 BUT NO, I WANTED TO BE A 6844 05:12:21,122 --> 05:12:23,658 BIOCHEMIST COME HELL OR HIGH 6845 05:12:23,658 --> 05:12:24,092 WATER. 6846 05:12:24,092 --> 05:12:28,530 I WANTED TO BE A BIOCHEMIST. 6847 05:12:28,530 --> 05:12:33,501 SO THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO DO. 6848 05:12:33,501 --> 05:12:34,469 WHY IS THAT? 6849 05:12:34,469 --> 05:12:36,271 WHY DID I WANT TO BE A 6850 05:12:36,271 --> 05:12:36,571 BIOCHEMIST? 6851 05:12:36,571 --> 05:12:38,873 IT'S BECAUSE, I THINK -- WELL, I 6852 05:12:38,873 --> 05:12:40,475 TOOK, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, I 6853 05:12:40,475 --> 05:12:43,178 TOOK CHEMISTRY IN HIGH SCHOOL. 6854 05:12:43,178 --> 05:12:43,778 I LIKED CHEMISTRY IN HIGH 6855 05:12:43,778 --> 05:12:48,583 SCHOOL. 6856 05:12:48,583 --> 05:12:50,919 YOU FIND OUT THE ATOMS, THE 6857 05:12:50,919 --> 05:12:52,353 MOLECULES, THEY FOLLOW VERY 6858 05:12:52,353 --> 05:12:53,054 SIMPLE RULES. 6859 05:12:53,054 --> 05:12:55,490 THAT'S WHAT CHEMISTRY IS. 6860 05:12:55,490 --> 05:12:57,692 WHAT ARE THE ATOMS AND MOLECULES 6861 05:12:57,692 --> 05:12:58,827 GOING TO DO BECAUSE OF COURSE 6862 05:12:58,827 --> 05:13:00,195 THEY FOLLOW THE RULES. 6863 05:13:00,195 --> 05:13:01,529 THAT'S WHAT CHEMISTRY IS. 6864 05:13:01,529 --> 05:13:02,831 AT THE SAME TIME, IF YOU STUDY 6865 05:13:02,831 --> 05:13:10,271 THE MOLECULES IN LIVING THINGS, 6866 05:13:10,271 --> 05:13:12,040 THEY SEEM TO ACT WITH A PURPOSE. 6867 05:13:12,040 --> 05:13:13,908 THEY SEEM TO HAVE FUNCTION. 6868 05:13:13,908 --> 05:13:15,977 YOU KNOW MOLECULES, IT'S LIKE 6869 05:13:15,977 --> 05:13:18,379 THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. 6870 05:13:18,379 --> 05:13:19,914 BUT SINCE YOU KNOW A LITTLE BIT 6871 05:13:19,914 --> 05:13:21,349 ABOUT CHEMISTRY, YOU KNOW THEY 6872 05:13:21,349 --> 05:13:23,618 DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. 6873 05:13:23,618 --> 05:13:25,820 THEY'RE JUST FOLLOWING RULES. 6874 05:13:25,820 --> 05:13:30,091 I THINK THIS BASIC PARADOX IS 6875 05:13:30,091 --> 05:13:33,261 WHAT ATTRACTED ME. 6876 05:13:33,261 --> 05:13:37,332 HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE THAT THESE 6877 05:13:37,332 --> 05:13:38,433 MOLECULES, WHICH ARE ONLY 6878 05:13:38,433 --> 05:13:39,767 FOLLOWING RULES, SEEM TO KNOW 6879 05:13:39,767 --> 05:13:43,004 WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND ACT WITH 6880 05:13:43,004 --> 05:13:51,079 PURPOSE? 6881 05:13:51,079 --> 05:13:53,848 SO NOT TAKING MY PARENTS' GOOD 6882 05:13:53,848 --> 05:13:55,150 ADVICE, I WENT TO COLLEGE. 6883 05:13:55,150 --> 05:13:56,684 I STUDIED BIOLOGY IN COLLEGE, 6884 05:13:56,684 --> 05:13:58,553 AND THEN WHEN I WENT TO GRADUATE 6885 05:13:58,553 --> 05:14:00,054 SCHOOL, I CHOSE BERKELEY, AND 6886 05:14:00,054 --> 05:14:04,359 THE REASON I CHOSE BERKELEY WAS 6887 05:14:04,359 --> 05:14:05,894 I DID NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I 6888 05:14:05,894 --> 05:14:09,230 WANTED TO STUDY, AND I FIGURED 6889 05:14:09,230 --> 05:14:11,266 BERKELEY WOULD HAVE GOOD 6890 05:14:11,266 --> 05:14:12,233 POSSIBILITIES IN JUST ABOUT 6891 05:14:12,233 --> 05:14:13,902 ANYTHING I WANTED TO STUDY. 6892 05:14:13,902 --> 05:14:16,271 I WAS KEEPING MY OPTIONS OPEN BY 6893 05:14:16,271 --> 05:14:18,139 GOING TO BERKELEY. 6894 05:14:18,139 --> 05:14:20,475 THINK THAT WAS EXACTLY RIGHT. 6895 05:14:20,475 --> 05:14:24,646 I STARTED OFF IN BERKELEY IN A 6896 05:14:24,646 --> 05:14:29,450 VERY FAMOUS, RESPECTED LAB, 6897 05:14:29,450 --> 05:14:35,557 STUDYING SEA URCHIN EMBRYOLOGY, 6898 05:14:35,557 --> 05:14:36,658 WHICH WAS VERY INTERESTING. 6899 05:14:36,658 --> 05:14:38,459 BUT THERE WAS A GUY UP THE HILL, 6900 05:14:38,459 --> 05:14:40,862 HARRY RUBIN, STUDYING THESE 6901 05:14:40,862 --> 05:14:41,763 AMAZING VIRUSES. 6902 05:14:41,763 --> 05:14:43,898 YOU JUST PUT THE VIRUSES ON THE 6903 05:14:43,898 --> 05:14:45,800 CELLS, A COUPLE DAYS LATER, 6904 05:14:45,800 --> 05:14:47,702 THEY'RE CANCER CELLS. 6905 05:14:47,702 --> 05:14:50,271 ISN'T THAT FANTASTIC? 6906 05:14:50,271 --> 05:14:53,141 SO I WAS JUST -- IT WAS JUST UP 6907 05:14:53,141 --> 05:14:58,146 THE HILL, AND I SWITCHED TO 6908 05:14:58,146 --> 05:15:00,114 RUBIN'S LAB. 6909 05:15:00,114 --> 05:15:02,717 HERE WE ARE, ALL THESE DECADES 6910 05:15:02,717 --> 05:15:02,917 LATER. 6911 05:15:02,917 --> 05:15:05,787 STILL TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE NOW 6912 05:15:05,787 --> 05:15:11,793 CALL RETROVIRUSES. 6913 05:15:11,793 --> 05:15:14,596 I THINK I BECAME A VIROLOGIST 6914 05:15:14,596 --> 05:15:17,131 BECAUSE VIROLOGISTS JUST 6915 05:15:17,131 --> 05:15:19,167 EPITOMIZE THIS PARADOX, THIS 6916 05:15:19,167 --> 05:15:19,834 CONTRADICTION. 6917 05:15:19,834 --> 05:15:21,035 ON THE ONE HAPPENED, THEY'RE 6918 05:15:21,035 --> 05:15:22,170 JUST A FEW MOLECULES. 6919 05:15:22,170 --> 05:15:23,471 THEY'RE JUST SITTING THERE. 6920 05:15:23,471 --> 05:15:25,373 ON THE OTHER HAND, AS WE ALL 6921 05:15:25,373 --> 05:15:28,109 KNOW, AS WE'VE SPENT OUR LIVES 6922 05:15:28,109 --> 05:15:29,344 STUDYING, THOSE MOLECULES SURE 6923 05:15:29,344 --> 05:15:30,712 SEEM TO ACT WITH A PURPOSE. 6924 05:15:30,712 --> 05:15:32,947 SO IT WAS THE FASCINATION WITH 6925 05:15:32,947 --> 05:15:40,321 THIS PARADOX THAT HAS HAS DRIVEN 6926 05:15:40,321 --> 05:15:41,389 ME ALL THESE YEARS. 6927 05:15:41,389 --> 05:15:43,157 I STILL FIND IT FASCINATING, AND 6928 05:15:43,157 --> 05:15:44,993 I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO 6929 05:15:44,993 --> 05:15:45,526 SAY. 6930 05:15:45,526 --> 05:15:47,862 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING AND ALL 6931 05:15:47,862 --> 05:15:51,332 THE KIND WORDS. 6932 05:15:51,332 --> 05:15:53,901 I WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK ERIC. 6933 05:15:53,901 --> 05:15:56,137 I DID NOT EXPECT AN EVENT LIKE 6934 05:15:56,137 --> 05:16:00,642 THIS, AND IT'S REALLY BEEN MORE 6935 05:16:00,642 --> 05:16:02,076 THAN I CAN -- I APPRECIATE IT 6936 05:16:02,076 --> 05:16:05,546 MORE THAN I CAN EXPRESS. 6937 05:16:05,546 --> 05:16:06,214 THANK YOU AGAIN. 6938 05:16:06,214 --> 05:16:07,248 NOW ERIC HAS SOME CLOSING, 6939 05:16:07,248 --> 05:16:17,525 CLOSING REMARKS. 6940 05:16:22,997 --> 05:16:24,465 >> YOU'RE ALL PROBABLY SAYING, 6941 05:16:24,465 --> 05:16:27,168 WAIT A SECOND, ERIC'S NOT ON THE 6942 05:16:27,168 --> 05:16:27,402 PROGRAM. 6943 05:16:27,402 --> 05:16:28,903 HE ALREADY TALKED TODAY, AND I 6944 05:16:28,903 --> 05:16:30,838 REALLY WANT TO GO TO STEINHART'S 6945 05:16:30,838 --> 05:16:32,006 AND GET A BEER. 6946 05:16:32,006 --> 05:16:33,341 I WILL BE VERY BRIEF. 6947 05:16:33,341 --> 05:16:36,244 I JUST WANTED TO JOIN ALAN IN 6948 05:16:36,244 --> 05:16:37,745 THANKING ALL OF YOU FOR COMING 6949 05:16:37,745 --> 05:16:38,946 FROM NEAR AND FROM FAR. 6950 05:16:38,946 --> 05:16:40,782 THOSE OF YOU WHO JOINED REMOTELY 6951 05:16:40,782 --> 05:16:42,283 AND MIGHT STILL BE ON THE CALL, 6952 05:16:42,283 --> 05:16:43,051 A LOT OF GOOD DISCUSSION IN THE 6953 05:16:43,051 --> 05:16:45,820 AUDIENCE. 6954 05:16:45,820 --> 05:16:48,990 MOST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK 6955 05:16:48,990 --> 05:16:49,290 ALAN. 6956 05:16:49,290 --> 05:16:50,925 I THINK WE GOT A FLAVOR TODAY OF 6957 05:16:50,925 --> 05:16:52,960 THE RESPECT, ADMIRATION, AND 6958 05:16:52,960 --> 05:16:53,594 AFFECTION THAT THE ENTIRE 6959 05:16:53,594 --> 05:16:55,396 COMMUNITY HAS FOR ALAN. 6960 05:16:55,396 --> 05:16:57,999 NOW I'D REALLY LIKE TO THANK YOU 6961 05:16:57,999 --> 05:17:00,034 FOR BEING MY COLLEAGUE ALL THESE 6962 05:17:00,034 --> 05:17:01,202 MANY YEARS. 6963 05:17:01,202 --> 05:17:02,937 I'VE REALLY CHERISHED IT. 6964 05:17:02,937 --> 05:17:04,439 I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN 6965 05:17:04,439 --> 05:17:06,174 YOUR FUTURE, AND I HOPE FOR MANY 6966 05:17:06,174 --> 05:17:10,078 MORE INTERACTIONS IN THE YEARS 6967 05:17:10,078 --> 05:17:10,278 AHEAD. 6968 05:17:10,278 --> 05:17:12,347 ONE LAST THING OTHER THAN 6969 05:17:12,347 --> 05:17:13,514 MENTIONING AGAIN THERE IS A 6970 05:17:13,514 --> 05:17:15,950 GATHERING AT STEINHART'S. 6971 05:17:15,950 --> 05:17:17,719 CORINNE MENTIONED THE RETROVIRUS 6972 05:17:17,719 --> 05:17:20,121 ASSEMBLY MEETING IN PRAGUE, THE 6973 05:17:20,121 --> 05:17:22,156 DATES ARE SEPTEMBER 16-19 OF 6974 05:17:22,156 --> 05:17:23,424 NEXT YEAR. 6975 05:17:23,424 --> 05:17:25,727 YOU CAN GOOGLE PRAGUE RETROVIRUS 6976 05:17:25,727 --> 05:17:27,295 ASSEMBLY MEETING, AND IT WILL 6977 05:17:27,295 --> 05:17:28,930 COME RIGHT UP, AND YOU CAN 6978 05:17:28,930 --> 05:17:29,997 REGISTER THERE. 6979 05:17:29,997 --> 05:17:32,433 I HOPE TO SEE MANY OF YOU THERE. 6980 05:17:32,433 --> 05:17:42,944 AND THANK YOU AGAIN VERY MUCH.