R. Curtis Hendrickson

TL;DR: ICTV has approved a proposal that extends the previously established realm Riboviria to encompass nearly all RNA viruses and reverse-transcribing viruses, and approved three separate proposals to establish three realms for viruses with DNA genomes.

TL;DR: A genome-wide picture of transcription alters the understanding of how orthopoxviruses regulate gene expression and reveals 35 genes exhibiting immediate-early expression in vaccinia virus.

TL;DR: The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) ratified 174 taxonomic proposals by the ICTV Executive Committee at its annual meeting in July 2019 as mentioned in this paper , and all proposals were ratified by an absolute majority of ICTV members.

TL;DR: Analysis of poxvirus protein coding genes using a method of characterizing and visualizing the similarity between these proteins and taxonomic subsets of proteins in GenBank demonstrates that in general, proteins encoded by members of the subfamily Chordopoxvirinae exhibit greater similarity to eukaryote proteins than to proteins of other virus families.

TL;DR: The results showed that the efflux pump MmpL5 plays a dominant role in siderophore secretion, the Rv2047c protein is essential for growth of Mtb in the presence of mycobactin, and the transcriptional repressor Zur is required for heme utilization by Mtb.