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. 2008 Oct 17;29(4):513-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2008.09.010.

MITAgating viral infection

Wenwen Zeng  1 , Zhijian J Chen
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MITAgating viral infection

Wenwen Zeng et al. Immunity. .
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Abstract

Two recent papers, one in this issue of Immunity (Zhong et al., 2008), report the identification of a membrane protein, termed MITA or STING, that activates the transcription factor IRF3 to induce type-I interferons to mitigate viral infection.

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