291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

1527.16 - 1556.82 Venki Ramakrishnan

And then they have alternative ways of recruiting ribosomes to their own mRNA. And so they effectively hijack all of the ribosomes to make their message. In fact, the first gene product of coronavirus is something called NSP1. What NSP1 does is shuts down initiation from host mRNAs and somehow still allows coronavirus to make its own genes, you know, proteins from its own genes.