Mini viral RNAs act as innate immune agonists during influenza virus infection

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1234-1242

  te Velthuis, Aartjan J W ^a,b   Long, Joshua C ^a   Bauer, David L V ^a   Fan, Rebecca L Y ^c   Yen, Hui Ling ^c   Sharps, Jane ^a   Siegers, Jurre Y ^d   Killip, Marian J ^a,e   French, Hollie ^b   Oliva Martín, Maria José ^a   Randall, Richard E ^e   de Wit, Emmie ^f   van Riel, Debby ^d   Poon, Leo L M ^c   Fodor, Ervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA; BETA INTERFERON; CYTOKINE; PB2 PROTEIN, INFLUENZA VIRUS; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFLUENZA; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETTER; MALE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; METABOLISM; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; MUTATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; DEAD BOX PROTEIN 58; FEMALE; FERRETS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INTERFERON-BETA; MALE; MUTATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85053552716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-018-0240-5     Document Type: Letter

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