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SUBMITTER: Crow YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527296 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crow Yanick J YJ Stetson Daniel B DB
Nature reviews. Immunology 20211020 8
As brutally demonstrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, an effective immune system is essential for survival. Developed over evolutionary time, viral nucleic acid detection is a central pillar in the defensive armamentarium used to combat foreign microbial invasion. To ensure cellular homeostasis, such a strategy necessitates the efficient discrimination of pathogen-derived DNA and RNA from that of the host. In 2011, it was suggested that an upregulation of type I interferon signalling might serve as ...[more]