Dr. Chunfu Zheng’s Lab has made significant headway in alphaherpesviruses research and published three articles in Journal of Virology in 2011. One of Professor Chunfu Zheng’s articles titled “Varicella-Zoster Virus Immediate-Early Protein ORF61 Abrogates the IRF3-Mediated Innate Immune Response through Degradation of Activated IRF3” has been selected by the editors of the Journal of Virolo...
The Ninth report of the International Committee on taxonomy of viruses (ICTV) has newly been published by Elsevier Academic press. Recent progresses on Grass carp reovirus (GCRV), made by researchers from Dr. Qin Fang, a member of The Reoviridae Study Group for ICTV, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was incorporated into the related chapter on dsRNA viruses in the repor...
Cell, the international leading scientific journal, published a coverpaper entitled: “3.3 ？ Cryo-EM Structure of a Nonenveloped Virus Reveals a Priming Mechanism for Cell Entry” in the issue of April 30, 2010 (Seeing http://www.cell.com). This achievement came from a joint research between Professor Qin Fang’s group from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professo...
The first whole genome sequence in China of a mosquitocidal bacterial, Bacillus sphaericus C3-41, has been completed. Genomic comparison indicated that this bacterium might be related to a kind of marine bacterium. Both of these two bacterial are not able to grow on sugar because of the absence of key enzymes for sugar transfer system and sugar metabolism. This research has been published on Jo...
