Recently, the research group led by Prof. Luo, Min-Hua in Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS has achieved significant progress on establishing and characterizing the first nerve cell model for Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) latent infection, namely, HCMV latently infected T98G glioblastoma cell model. Relevant research results have been published in the Journal of Virology (JV) as the spotlight art...
Recently, a team led by Prof. Wang Hanzhong of WIV made big progress in research of virus labeling by Nano material for the visibility of interaction between the virus and host cell. Relevant article has been published on the academic journal Biomaterials. Virus single-particle labeling and tracking technology offers us new perspective into the interaction between virus and its host cell. Now t...
Dr. Chunfu Zheng’s Lab in Wuhan Institute of Virology has made significant headway in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1) research and published one article entitled “HSV-1 Tegument Protein US11 down-modulates RLR Signaling Pathway via Direct Interaction with RIG-I and MDA-5” in Journal of Virology in 2012. The interferon (IFN)-mediated antiviral response is a major defense of the host immune
Recently, significant progress on variant Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg)has been made by the research team led by Dr. Chen Xinwen at WIV . The research achievement was published in Journal of Virology (2012, 86(8), 4658-4669. doi: 10.1128 / JVI.06 353-11). Hepatitis B surface antige(HBsAg), the envelope proteins of hepatitis B virus (HBV), induce protective immune response. The region comp...
