Drosophilosophical: Re-thinking Adaptive Immunity in the Fly.

West, Cara; Silverman, Neal · Cell · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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