OAS proteins and cGAS: Unifying concepts in sensing and responding to cytosolic nucleic acids

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 521-528

  Hornung, Veit ^a   Hartmann, Rune ^b   Ablasser, Andrea ^a,c   Hopfner, Karl Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2',5'-OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE; ADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; CYTOSOL; DNA; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; NUCLEOTIDES, CYCLIC; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; VIRUSES;

EID: 84905123345     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3719     Document Type: Article

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