The expanding regulatory network of STING-mediated signaling

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 144-150

  Surpris, Guy ^a   Poltorak, Alexander ^a,b,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PETROZAVODSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; STIMULATOR OF INTERFERON GENE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MPYS PROTEIN, HUMAN; VIRUS DNA;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INNATE IMMUNITY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MITOCHONDRION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALLPOX; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INTERFERENCE; AGING; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 84978176866     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2016.05.014     Document Type: Review

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