University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Drosophilosophical: Re-thinking Adaptive Immunity in the Fly
UMMS Affiliation
Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine
Publication Date
2017-04-06
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Immunity
Abstract
For decades, flies have been a model for innate immunity. In this issue of Cell, Tassetto et al. describe a mechanism for antiviral RNAi spreading that parallels mammalian adaptive immunity through reverse-transcribed vDNA circles and the systemic dissemination of small-RNA-containing exosomes.
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032
Source
Cell. 2017 Apr 6;169(2):188-190. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cell
PubMed ID
28388404
Repository Citation
West CC, Silverman NS. (2017). Drosophilosophical: Re-thinking Adaptive Immunity in the Fly. University of Massachusetts Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.032. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/1290