We are delighted that our manuscript on copy-back synthesis and recombination in EV-A71 virus is now published in Molecular Cell! Congrats in particular to Richard, Louis, and Belén from our group, as well as to Andrew Woodman of the Craig Cameron group. Thank you to all our other collaborators as well, in particular Shin-Ru Shih, Marco Vignuzzi, and Craig Cameron. The press release can be found here. The published files can be found on our Publications page.
Our study revealed the underlying molecular mechanism and triggers of polymerase switching between different parental virus genomes during RNA replication that can result in recombination and attendant novel genetic combinations.
