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SUBMITTER: Soucy-Faulkner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2880583 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soucy-Faulkner Anton A Mukawera Espérance E Fink Karin K Martel Alexis A Jouan Loubna L Nzengue Yves Y Lamarre Daniel D Vande Velde Christine C Grandvaux Nathalie N
PLoS pathogens 20100603 6
The innate immune response is essential to the host defense against viruses, through restriction of virus replication and coordination of the adaptive immune response. Induction of antiviral genes is a tightly regulated process initiated mainly through sensing of invading virus nucleic acids in the cytoplasm by RIG-I like helicases, RIG-I or Mda5, which transmit the signal through a common mitochondria-associated adaptor, MAVS. Although major breakthroughs have recently been made, much remains u ...[more]