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Gov. Mike Pence's Regional Cities Initiative will get all the money Pence requested.
Lawmakers identified a funding source that won't take dollars out of the General Fund.
The governor's Regional Cities Initiative is aimed at fostering greater collaboration in economic development and community improvement around the state.
Pence asked for $84 million over the next two years, but House and Senate budget proposals only set aside $20 million. But as the General Assembly prepares the budget for final passage Wednesday, Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, says lawmakers have come around on the issue.
"I think the governor's going to be pleased with the regional funding and we've avoided the General Fund and raiding dedicated funds," Bosma says.
The budget will fully fund the governor's initiative – $84 million dollars – by implementing a tax amnesty program. That will allow Hoosier businesses and individuals who owe back taxes to pay them without a penalty. Bosma says he expects the amnesty program to provide more than what's needed for the Regional Cities program.
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Brandon Smith is excited to be working for public radio in Indiana. He has previously worked in public radio as a reporter and anchor in mid-Missouri for KBIA Radio out of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked for WSPY Radio in Plano, Illinois as a show host, reporter, producer and anchor. His first job in radio was in another state capitol, in Jefferson City, Missouri, as a reporter for three radio stations around Missouri. Brandon graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2010, with minors in political science and history. He was born and raised in Chicago.
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PARIS — Three masked gunmen who shouted the Islamic saying "Allahu Ahkbar" gunned down twelve people on Wednesday at the office of a French satirical newspaper that has been known for publishing cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet Mohammad and other Islamic figures.
According to reports, the attack occurred at approximately 12 noon local time at Charlie Hebdo, a weekly publication with offices in Paris. In 2011, the newspaper was firebombed after publishing a caricature of Mohammad as its cover piece, and the following year, after Charlie Hebdo published additional cartoons mocking Mohammad, the government closed its embassies and schools in over 20 countries out of fear of retribution.
This week's issue featured an Islamic caricature entitled "Still No Attacks in France," which included a drawing of a Muslim fighter declaring, "Just wait—we have until the end of January to present our New Year's wishes." Just moments before the attack, staff at Charlie Hebdo Tweeted a cartoon featuring ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who issued best wishes for the new year.
Cartoonist Corine Rey told the publication Humanite that she was forced at gunpoint to let the men in the building.
Stephane Charbonnet, one of Charlie Hebdo's editors who has faced death threats in the past, as well as a cartoonist, were killed in the attack, in addition to eight others. Two police officers were also killed in a standoff outside the building. Five other people were injured.
The gunmen then took off in two separate vehicles, and a manhunt is still underway for the assailants. One of the vehicles has been found abandoned.
France has now raised its terror threat level following the attack.
The incident is the latest in a string of violent attacks in France in recent weeks. As previously reported, a Muslim man attempted to strangle a police officer in France on Friday while yelling "Allahu Akbar." Last month, in the city of Joue-les-Tours, 20-year-old Bertrand Nzohabonayo also entered a police station with a knife and began attacking officers while yelling the common Islamic saying.
Reports also state that days afterward, a man plowed the vehicle he was driving into a crowd in the city of Dijon, injuring thirteen. He also yelled "Allahu Akbar" and "for the children of Palestine" as he committed the act, although prosecutors claim that the man was mentally ill.
"We are all concerned about this series of tragedies," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told Reuters.


Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey is likely to miss the visit of Swansea City after having not trained since limping off in the win over Hull City.
Ramsey scored the Gunners' second during a 3-1 win at the KC Stadium but the result came at a cost as the Wales international went off after suffering a kick to the foot.
The 24-year-old has not trained since picking up the knock and is therefore not expected to feature for the visit of Swansea City, a game that could see Arsenal secure a place in next season's Champions League.
Other than Ramsey being potentially unavailable, Arsenal's injury list remains unchanged with Mathieu Debuchy's hamstring issue ensuring he remains absent.
Danny Welbeck is out with a knee problem and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain continues to be haunted by a groin injury, while Mikel Arteta's recovery from calf surgery has stalled.
"From the Hull match we had Ramsey who took a big kick, he is getting slowly better," manager Arsene Wenger said. "He could be back in training soon.
"Welbeck is doing better but he is still not in training, he has missed now more than a week. There is no major damage but we have to see how it progresses over the next two or three days.
"[Debuchy] is still out, he's progressing but not available. Chamberlain is not available, Arteta will be short so it will basically be a similar squad [to the one that faced Hull]."
Wenger is expected to provide a further update regarding the injury prognosis of the quintet in his pre-match press conference on 8 May ahead of the visit of Garry Monk's side.
A point for Arsenal will be enough to see the club reach the Champions League for a 17th straight season but the north London side could have qualification assured 24 hours previous if fifth place Liverpool fail to beat champions Chelsea.


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It's been three years since outer European countries like Hungary erected razor wire fences to keep out millions of potential asylum-seekers hoping to reach Western Europe. Despite these border closures, "the lucky ones", like Samir Zemaray, made it all the way from Kabul, Afghanistan to Markgröningen, Germany, to claim asylum. Samir was targeted by the Taliban for his work with the Afghan government to conduct a population census. He fled to Europe to find a safe place to rebuild his life, and to be reunited with his older brother who lives in London.
I first met Samir in Subotica, Serbia, a small border town on the Serbian-Hungarian border where I was running a small food distribution point in the summer of 2016. We were both 21 at the time, but he was living in an overcrowded camp, and I was about to start my final year of university. Upon leaving Serbia to go back to school, I gave Samir a notebook to continue documenting his experience in Europe—he had already started writing his story in Dari when he first left Afghanistan.
Since we met over two years ago, Samir was beaten by Hungarian border police, spent twenty-eight days in mandatory detention in Hungary, and crossed the Austrian and German borders with the help of smugglers and Western Union transfers from his family. He ultimately claimed asylum in Germany after being arrested for not having documents, but his asylum case is still undetermined despite a strong portfolio of evidence and an attorney to support him. In waiting, Samir is terrified of being deported.
Now living in Markgröningen, a village in Southern Germany, he stays in Las Vegas, a discothek-turned-refugee accommodation center, and has learned German and works part-time at a package delivery warehouse. He spends his free time with an older woman he calls Oma, or grandma, who acts as a bridge between young refugees and the rest of the village. She invites refugees living in Markgröningen to parties with her friends and family, tutors them in German, and goes door-knocking to ask if people have empty apartments which can be rented out to those moving out of refugee accommodation centers.


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After being thrown off the welfare line, unemployed rogue Gus Gorman takes a computer course and gets a job with the company of Ross Webster. He is able to defraud the corporation of $85,000 when he collects up all the half-cents never paid to employees floating around inside the computer system. This brings him to Webster�s attention. Rather than firing him, Webster instead employs Gus�s computer expertise to conduct illegal operations - destroying a rival South American coffee crop, leaving oil tankers stranded in the middle of the ocean - to ensure that his own business schemes succeed. But when Superman foils these plans, Webster orders Gus to deal with Superman. So Gus tries to synthesize artificial Kryptonite. Unfortunately there is an unknown element in the Kryptonite and to complete the formula Gus just makes up an answer. But the result causes Superman to split into two people - one good, one evil.
Richard Lester made a number of popular comedies in the 1960s - including The Beatles� classic A Hard Day�s Night (1964) and other hits such as The Knack (1965), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) and Petulia (1968). His grounding is in comedy and this is an approach that dooms Superman III . The opening scene, for example, is a giant choreographed custard pie sequence where Clark Kent�s changing into Superman unwittingly causes a chain of disasters in the street involving a blind man, toy penguins, a row of phone booths collapsing and a fire hydrant causing a man to nearly drown inside his car. When we come to scenes like where the computer targeting system for a missile launch suddenly turns into a videogame or with the animated figures on a traffic light signal getting confused and deciding to fight it out, we realize we are watching a film that is no longer taking itself seriously. The major problem with this entry in the Superman series is the writing in of Richard Pryor, who was a popular comedian of the time in films like Stir Crazy (1980), Some Kind of Hero (1980) and The Toy (1982). Pryor has no real place in the film - indeed he was only cast after an appearance on a US talkshow where he said how much he would like to be in a Superman film. His exploits are given as much running time as Superman�s and it is a clear signal that the film is focused on selling itself to the light comedy and children�s audience and that it is no longer interested in paying respect to the comic-book. Pryor�s presence just results in some really silly antics - with him running about in a giant cowboy hat getting Gavin O�Herlihy drunk; or one scene messing about on Robert Vaughn�s rooftop ski slope where Pryor�s bumbling causes him to ski down the slope and right off the side of the skyscraper and quite incredulously all the way to the ground where he survives without any harm (a feat that would in actuality kill him, no questions about it).
The script has no real focus. Robert Vaughn�s villain is merely an unimaginative rehash of Lex Luthor from the first film, even down to his blonde bimbo. Moreover though his villainous schemes are rather vague and unfocused - we are not even really sure what Webster�s grand plot is. There are also a lot of inconsistencies in the script - Superman can fly through a hail of missiles, yet a good bottle of whisky gets him drunk; and when he does the old coal-squeezing trick from the comic-book, it rather amusingly not only comes out as a diamond but a cut and refined one too. There�s an amazingly bad climax - one where the super-computer becomes a recalcitrant AI in about 30 seconds flat, and starts shooting rays and turning people into cyborg zombies. The special effects are not that special this time out. The one worthwhile sequence is where Superman splits into a good and bad self and the two start fighting it out in a junkyard - a scene that has clearly been modeled on the super-powered street fight that Lester choreographed and was the highlight of Superman II. Christopher Reeve gives a customarily good performance in both roles.
Missing substantially from the film is Margot Kidder and the character of Lois Lane. In interviews following Superman II, Kidder had been vocal about expressing her dissatisfaction with the way the Salkinds had fired Donner and in punishment her role here was severely diminished with her appearances kept only to a few minutes at both the beginning and the end. She is replaced by Annette O�Toole as Lana Lang, one point where the film does pay homage to the comic-book and quite well, with O�Toole doing a quite decent job. [In an interesting piece of trivia O�Toole was later cast as Martha Kent, the adopted mother of the young Superman in tv�s Smallville (2001- )].


I was living at that date, and continue to live, in British Columbia, Canada.
I discovered this letter and saw the defamatory statement for the first time on December 21, 2011. I wrote Grieboski on December 22, demanding that he and the IRPP correct the defamatory statement and repair the damage done to me. He has not responded.
Because we protect the rights of all people, we are continually under scrutiny by those who do not. I make this point because of the source you referenced who is striving to give credence to the belief that we are a front for Scientologists. We have repeatedly dealt with bad press from this person and I leave it to you good readers to determine whether or not his views are based on fact.
If that is not enough, Armstrong once posted a message on the Internet concerning a letter he sent to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. In the letter, he offered himself to Hussein as a hostage in the Iraqi war. "If either side failed to perform any part of the agreement, the other side could execute me," he concluded. Armstrong makes clear in his posting that he did not think the letter to Hussein was a joke, but was deadly serious. He quite proudly republishes it and other similar writings from time to time. There is much more I could say on the subject, but will leave it to the readers to research for themselves if they wish to discover the more sordid background of this "gentleman," who currently has several outstanding warrants for his arrest.
Separately, I have written an analysis of Grieboski's statement to assist in understanding the facts underlying his statement about me and my claims against him, the IRPP and his company Just Consulting in Alexandria, VA.
I have also posted what has been leaked as, and I believe to be, a Scientology organization program showing that the Scientologists were paying and running him. I learned of the "Grieboski Program" on December 21 from an article by Village Voice Editor-in-Chief Tony Ortega.
The article mentions a letter I had written Grieboski in 2009. After reading the article I discovered the subject defamatory statement from 2008.
I have no money, so only attorneys or firms that would welcome a monumental but manageable case that reaches around the world and up to the world's most powerful persons and bodies on a contingent fee basis need consider me or read my analysis. I do have adequate records, I worked as a paralegal in complex litigation in the US for several years, I have testified many days and written many declarations concerning my experiences and knowledge, and I do have an excellent and interesting claim and facts, so I am not completely assetless to make this case successful.
Attorneys considering taking this case must recognize that they will become targets of the Scientologists' litigation, black propaganda and intelligence machinery. That is also why, actually, smart and courageous attorneys should take this case. Despite all their aggression, black PR and covert activities, the Scientologists and their collaborators are definitely vulnerable and vincible.
With his defamatory statement, Grieboski raises the issues of my present legal relationship with the Scientologists and their torts and crimes against me. These are also factors in the global environment in which he says he has repeatedly dealt with me, or the bad press supposedly from me. I believe, however, that these matters do not have to be resolved or even addressed before a claim is brought against Grieboski and his organizations.
Where in the world this case would take its attorneys I can only imagine. The voyage of discovery could lead anywhere.
I look forward to hearing from such attorneys, or law firms, or anyone with a sincere interest.


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Ukrainian Boeing 737 Plane has been shot down as a hostile object due to human error at a time of heightened US threats of war, the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said in a statement on Saturday.
The statement said an expert invistigation by the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces after the Ukrainian airline company's Boeing 737 incident has found that flight 752 of the Ukrainian airlines has been shot down as a hostile flying object that was approaching a sensitive IRGC center and was shot down due to human error few hours after Iran's missile attack on the US and as Iran's military was expecting attacks by the US army.
"Following threats by the criminal US president and military commanders to strike a large number of targets on the Islamic Republic of Iran's territory in case of an Iranian attack and due to the unprecedented aerial movements in the region, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Armed Forces were on highest levels of alert to respond to any possible threats," the statement said.
"In the early hours after the missile attack, military flights of the US terrorist forces increased around the country and defense units received some reports about flying objects that were moving towards the country's strategic centers as several targets appeared on radar screens which made the air defense units more sensitive," it added.
"Under such sensitive and critical circumstances, flight number 752 of the Ukrainian airline company left Imam Khomeini airport and then approached a sensitive military center after a turn, positioning itselt at the altitude and form of a hostile flight and was hit because of a human error and unintentionally under such conditions, and as a result a number of our country men and women and some foreign citizens lost their lives," it added.
The statement extended the Iranian Armed Forces' appology and condolences to the families of the victims for the incident resulting from human error, and ensured prosecution of those guilty.
The Armed Forces also ensured that it will immediately start fundamental revisions and reforms in operational procedures to make such human errors impossible.
Meanwhile Iran's president Hassan Rouhani tweeted on his account: "Armed Forces' internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people. Investigations continue to identify & prosecute this great tragedy & unforgivable mistake."
Armed Forces' internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the Ukrainian plane & death of 176 innocent people.
Investigations continue to identify & prosecute this great tragedy & unforgivable mistake. #PS752
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) January 11, 2020
He went on : "The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake. My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences."
The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake.
My thoughts and prayers go to all the mourning families. I offer my sincerest condolences. https://t.co/4dkePxupzm
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 180 passengers and crew, mostly Iranians, crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran early Wednesday, leaving no survivors.
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If you do, do you have images on them or simple name and company logo?
Do they really help you with your business?
I don't have any business card. I'm only trying to get exposure on the internet. Maybe when I can have that income I'll try using business cards.
Color image on front and contact info on back. I give out a 500 a year.
This is mine! It's only my logo & name, it doesn't really show my work off or anything, it's mostly just something for people to remember me by. I put it in all the packages I send out or have them at my table for shows I'm in. I used www.printplace.com to get them printed, I got 1000 for only $30, they came out really nice for the price!
I know a lot of artists that like to use moo.com to make theirs, they either use normal size business cards or moo cards. They're more expensive but you can design it all on their site using pictures from your Flickr account.
For those who are looking for business cards, I'd recommend looking into your local craigslist or kijiji-- lots of local print shops will print cards on the cheap. Also, if you don't have the cash to furnish a double sided card, but don't want the plain look of a white backed card, most printers will do a black backing for a small fee.
Also, always ask for a complimentary sample print. You may think everything is the way it aught to be, but a minor change in settings or color calibration can cause a lot of problems-- especially if this is discovered AFTER your 200+ cards have been lovingly printed, cut and packaged.
Loveandasandwhich - Those are awesome! Do you find it helps improve call backs or getting you more business?
Sanya - Thanks for the advice, I may not have done that because honestly I hadn't thought of it.
Having something to give someone when you're telling them about your work is always helpful. Otherwise they'll never remember to go check out your work later. Before I got business cards I had little buttons with crops of pictures of my monsters with my site around the rim, and stickers with my site on it. Those might have been even better for what I do because people actually kept them and put them on their bags or notebooks.


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The continued success in global tobacco control is detailed in this year's WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2013. The fourth in the series, this year's report presents the status of the MPOWER measures, with country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2012. In addition, the report provides a special focus on legislation to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) in WHO Member States and an in-depth analyses of TAPS bans were performed, allowing for a more detailed understanding of progress and future challenges in this area.
The progress in reaching the highest level of achievement in tobacco control is a sign of the growing success of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and provides strong evidence that there is political will for tobacco control on both national and global levels. About 2.3 billion people are now covered by at least one tobacco control measure at the highest level of achievement. This is due to the actions taken by many WHO Member States to fight the tobacco epidemic. These countries can be held up as models of action for the many countries that need to do more to protect their people from the harms of tobacco use.
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When all is said and done, Beck's Guero might be the quintessential album of 2005. Not the best, nor the one that captured the sound of the year, but the album that illustrates that in 2005, there was no such thing as a finished album — that a set of songs could be packaged and repackaged in so many forms, it never really seems to exist as a finished work. That's because in the course of the year there were roughly five different incarnations of the album, Guerolito is a remix of the entire Guero album, with each track being remixed by a different act, including Air, Boards of Canada, Octet, and Ad-Rock. Sometimes these songs bear different titles than their source material — 'E-Pro' became 'Ghost Range,' for instance; this practice was in place for the deluxe version of Guero as well — and Guerolito itself had its own alternate edition, which was packaged and sequenced slightly different from its main edition, plus an import with a bonus track.


A packed calendar of festivals and events last year, including Olympic Football at St James' Park, has cemented NewcastleGateshead's reputation as a city-break destination of choice, with new figures showing 14% more people stayed overnight in 2012.
Estimated using the Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity Model (STEAM), the figures released today shows a significant increase in the value and volume of overnight visitors. 1.9m people (up by 200,000 compared to 2011) spent a total of 4.3 million nights in NewcastleGateshead in 2012 (up 5%), contributing £404m to the local economy (up 8%).
Overall the number of visitors, including those coming to NewcastleGateshead for the day, has grown significantly reaching 17.7 million people, (an increase of 1%); tourism is now worth £1.3bn to the local economy. Employment in the sector has also seen growth with 18,799 people now employed in tourism related jobs, (a rise of 2%).
Sleeperz Newcastle opened in January 2012; Javeed Anwar, head of sales and marketing at Sleeperz Hotels, commented: "The performance of our city centre Newcastle hotel reflects the positive economic impact tourism is having in NewcastleGateshead.
As well as NewcastleGateshead's annual programme of festivals and events, which features favourites like EAT!, Juice Festival and the New Year's Eve Winter Carnival, 2012 also saw a string of high-profile meetings take place.
Sage Gateshead hosted the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference in March, completing a hat-trick of political party conferences. While Newcastle Civic Centre welcomed the National Union of Journalists in October; combined, the two events attracted more than 1,850 delegates and ploughed more than £2m into the local economy.
Attractions across the destination also saw increased footfall across the year with 2.3 million visitors, (up 5% compared to 2011). The summer saw the arrival of Olympic Football on Tyneside with teams including Mexico and Brazil taking part in the London 2012 Olympic Football tournament at St James' Park.
NewcastleGateshead Initiative is currently undertaking a face to face survey to get direct feedback from visitors about their stay and see how the experience can be made even better.
The survey, the first of its kind for three years, will provide valuable data to help understand who is currently coming to NewcastleGateshead and help shape future marketing campaigns. Partners including hotels and leisure attractions will be helping carry out the survey which will run throughout the summer.
• 17.7 million people visited NewcastleGateshead (up by 1%).
• Overall visitors spent 20 million days in NewcastleGateshead with a total expenditure of £1.3 billion (up by 2%).
• The destination welcomed 1.9 million overnight visitors (up by 14%).
• Overnight visitors spent 4.3 million nights in NewcastleGateshead (up by 5%).
• Overnight visitor spend £404m (up by 8%).
• Tourism directly employs 14,822 in NewcastleGateshead (up by 2%) with total employment at 18,799 (up by 2%).
• STEAM is a tourism economic impact model operated by Global Tourism Solutions (UK) ltd, providing monthly and annual estimates on the value, volume and impact of tourism in the area.


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A Close Look at Measles Virus Assembly
Cryo-electron tomography images enabled study of key membrane glycoproteins
May 14, 2018 | Atlanta, GA
Using cryo-electron tomography, Georgia Tech and Emory University researchers have captured images of measles viruses as they emerge from infected cells. The work advances the understanding of measles and related viruses and could suggest antiviral drug strategies likely to work across multiple members of the family that includes measles virus.
The results were published in Nature Communications.
Scientists led by Elizabeth Wright and Zunlong Ke say they can discern an internal matrix protein acting as a scaffold, with the encapsidated genetic material visible as "snakes" close to the viral membrane.
An effective vaccine is available against measles virus, which is a highly infectious pathogen. Yet scientists still don't understand a lot about it, Ke says. Understanding the internal organization of measles virus could guide the study of related viruses, such as parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which are common causes of respiratory illnesses, as well as Nipah virus, an inspiration for the film "Contagion."
Wright is an associate professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, director of the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core, and a Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator. She has an adjunct appointment in the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences.
Ke is a former Georgia Tech Ph.D. student of Wright's. Ke is starting a postdoctoral position this summer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K.
After working with purified viruses for a long time, Wright, Ke, and colleagues decided to examine virus-infected cells. The team collaborated with Richard Plemper, who specializes in measles virus and is now at Georgia State University.
The family of viruses that includes measles, called paramyxoviruses, is difficult to handle because of their low titers, instability, and heterogeneity, Wright says. For structural studies, researchers usually concentrate and purify viruses by centrifuging them through thick solutions. But this method is tricky for measles virus, which are squishy and prone to bursting. For this reason, they are difficult to visualize.
"Instead, we grow and infect the cells directly on the grids we use for microscopy and rapidly freeze them, right at the stage when they are forming new viruses," Ke says.
Improvements in technology have increased the resolution of imaging. Cryo-electron tomography, which is ideal for viruses that come in different shapes and sizes, uses an electron microscope to obtain a series of 2D pictures of the viruses as the sample holder is tilted to multiple angles along one axis. The images and the angular information are then used to compute the 3D volume of the virus, much like a medical CT scan, Wright says.
"We would never see this level of detail with purified virus, because the process of purification disrupts and damages the delicate virus particles," she says. "With the whole-cell tomography approach, we can collect data on hundreds of viruses during stages of assembly and when released. This allows us to capture the full spectrum of structures along the virus assembly pathway."
For example, the scientists can now see the organization of glycoproteins on the surface of the viral membrane. Previous work showed two glycoproteins were present on the membrane, but they were a "forest of trees," with insufficient detail to identify each one.
In this study, the team resolved the two glycoproteins and determined that one of them, the fusion (F) protein, is organized into a well-defined lattice supported by interactions with the matrix protein. In addition, they could see "paracrystalline arrays" of the matrix protein, called M, under the membrane. The arrays had not been seen in measles virus-infected cells or individual measles virus particles before, Wright says. Under the microscope, these arrays look like Lego grid plates, from which the rest of the virus is built and ordered.
The new 3D structures also argue against a previous model of viral assembly, with ribonucleoprotein genetic material as a core and the M protein forming a coat around it.
The scientists are still figuring out what makes measles virus take a bulbous shape while RSV is more filamentous. Ke thinks the scaffold role of M is similar for related viruses; however, as the virus assembles, individual structural proteins may coordinate uniquely to produce virus particles with different shapes that better support their replication cycle.
This work was supported in part by Emory University; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; the Georgia Research Alliance; the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University (P30 AI050409); the James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust; public health service grants R01AI083402 and R01HD079327, R01GM114561, R21AI101775, and F32GM112517; and NSF grant 0923395.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is an abridged and slightly modified version of the original story by Quinn Eastman published in the Emory News Center on April 30, 2018.
Zunlong Ke
Video: Using cryo-electron tomography to visualize measles viruses (Courtesy of Zunlong Ke and Elizabeth Wright)
maureen.rouhi@cos.gatech.edu
Quinn Eastman
qeastma@emory.edu
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