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Immune 65: Infection infidelities with Jonathan Kagan

  • February 20, 2023
  • Tagged as: immune, immunology, innate immunity, interferon, pathogen-associated molecular pattern, toll-like receptor

Jon joins Immune to discuss the research of his laboratory on understanding how the innate immune system recognizes and responds to pathogens, and his hypothesis that infection infidelities drive innate immunity.

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Immune 46: Bats don’t STING like a bee

  • July 27, 2021
  • Tagged as: bat, cGAS, DNA sensing, immune, immunology, interferon, STING, virus reservoir, zoonosis

Immune explore the observation that bat cells display dampened STING-dependent interferon activation, suggesting why bats might have a unique capacity to harbor many viruses.

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Immune 13: Do no harm

  • October 20, 2018
  • Tagged as: IFN, immune, immunology, innate immunity, innate sensor, interferon, lncRNA, long noncoding RNA, RIG-I, toll-like receptor

The ImmuNerds discuss how a cellular long non-coding RNA binds to an innate RNA sensor and regulates virus-induced interferon production to prevent damage to the host.

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