RIG-I Selectively Discriminates against 5′-Monophosphate RNA

Summary: The innate immune sensor RIG-I must sensitively detect and respond to viral RNAs that enter the cytoplasm, while remaining unresponsive to the abundance of structurally similar RNAs that are the products of host metabolism. In the case of RIG-I, these viral and host targets differ by only a...

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Main Authors: Xiaoming Ren, Melissa M. Linehan, Akiko Iwasaki, Anna Marie Pyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124719301445