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Immune 46: Bats don't STING like a bee

Immune

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The Role of Sting in the Control of Excess Type 1 Interferon Production

The entire family of genes that IFI 16 belongs to has been deleted in bats. The canonical pathway is that sting is going through DNA sensors, although there are a few less canonical times where RNA may go through sting. So, we may answer my question here, leading to sting, yet you still have sting. Right, so, what, there are other ways to activate sting.

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