Resumen de Color Me Infected: painting Cellular Chromatin with a Viral Histone Mimic

Cason`R. King, Tanner M. Tessier, Joe S. Mymryk

• Viruses manipulate cellular chromatin to create a favourable milieu for infection. In several cases, virally-encoded proteins structurally mimic cellular histones to molecularly rewire the host cell. A recent study identified a novel mechanism whereby adenovirus protein VII, a viral histone, binds and manipulates host cell chromatin to suppress inflammatory signalling.