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Nature Immunology 8, 907 - 908 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ni0907-907

Cytoplasmic double-stranded DNA sensor

Mitsutoshi Yoneyama1 & Takashi Fujita1

  1. Mitsutoshi Yoneyama and Takashi Fujita are in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Institute for Virus Research, and Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan. e-mail: tfujita@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp

A new study in Nature identifies a long-sought cytoplasmic 'sensor' that is responsible, at least in part, for interferon responses induced by double-stranded DNA.

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