IFITs: Emerging Roles as Key Anti-Viral Proteins
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IFITs: Emerging Roles as Key Anti-Viral Proteins
Interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide repeats (IFITs) are a family of proteins, which are strongly induced downstream of type I interferon signaling. The molecular mechanism of IFIT anti-viral activity has been studied in some detail, including the recently discovered direct binding of viral nucleic acid, the binding to viral and host proteins, and the possible involvement in anti-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Immunology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-3224
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00094