Vaccinia virus MacGyvers a makeshift tool to repair its DNA, exposing a vulnerability that could be targeted - EurekAlert

The vaccinia virus uses its own machinery and not that of the cell it infects to repair ultraviolet radiation-caused damage to its DNA, reports a Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) team in the Journal of Virology. The virus repurposes an enzyme it us…

image: Paula Traktman, Ph.D., dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Conor Templeton, Ph.D. in the Traktman laboratory. Traktman and Templeton … [+7934 chars]

full article...