233: Antivirals made by bacteria

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TWiM team reviews the movie Jezebel, played against the background of the yellow fever epidemic of 1853 in New Orleans, and prokaryotic viperins, ancestors of the eukaryotic enzymes that synthesize antiviral molecules.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subscribe to TWiM (free) on</span> <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846&ls=1https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-microbiology/id422332846?mt=2&ls=1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Apple Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aW1zaG93Lm1pY3JvYmV3b3JsZC5saWJzeW5wcm8uY29tLw%3D%3D"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Podcasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="http://subscribeonandroid.com/twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Android</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href= "http://twimshow.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">RSS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or by</span> <a href="http://eepurl.com/Hu-U9"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">email.</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <h2><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h2> <ul> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel_(1938_film)"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Jezebel</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Wikipedia)</span></li> <li><a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32937646/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Prokaryotic viperins</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(Nature)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A</span> <a href= "https://www.virology.ws/2018/09/27/a-cell-protein-that-synthesizes-an-antiviral-ribonucleotide/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">cell protein that synthesizes