{"id":216246,"date":"2025-06-19T05:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/herpes-virus-reshapes-the-human-genome-for-its-own-benefit-but-a-single-enzyme-can-stop-it"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:30:36","slug":"herpes-virus-reshapes-the-human-genome-for-its-own-benefit-but-a-single-enzyme-can-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/herpes-virus-reshapes-the-human-genome-for-its-own-benefit-but-a-single-enzyme-can-stop-it","title":{"rendered":"Herpes virus reshapes the human genome for its own benefit, but a single enzyme can stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/herpes-virus-reshapes-the-human-genome-for-its-own-benefit-but-a-single-enzyme-can-stop-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host\u2019s cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), it turns out, also redecorates, according to a study in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered the cold sore <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus<\/a> reshapes the human genome\u2019s architecture, rearranging its shape in three-dimensional space so that HSV-1 can access host genes most useful for its ability to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHSV-1 is an opportunistic interior designer, reshaping the human genome with great precision and choosing which bits it comes into contact with. It\u2019s a novel mechanism of manipulation we didn\u2019t know the virus had to exploit host resources,\u201d says Dr. Esther Gonz\u00e1lez Almela, first author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host\u2019s cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), it turns out, also redecorates, according to a study in Nature Communications. Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}