Jan 2024

Our paper on the role of the host cell stress transcription factor, c-Jun, in HSV-1 reactivation has been published in Journal of Virology (read more here).  While there are multiple observations in this study, one particularly intriguing one is that cell stress during initial HSV infection has an impact on the later ability of the virus to reactivation. This highlights how neurons and/or the viral genome has a memory of previous stress.