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Immune 46: Bats don't STING like a bee

Immune

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The Different Immune Responses of Bats

Lin-Fo-Won: I think maybe it was a difference in methodology. So B is RNA-seq and A is QPCR. Yeah. It would be nice to look at protein levels of these cytokines, but my assumption is they do not have... That... I think that's fine. But given my interest in DNA sensing, I particularly find this rather intriguing. They basically take A and B and use them to say that there is a difference in how the sting protein from this rhinophilus species signals. And they hypothesize that that is due to the difference in the serine at 358 in sting. The wild type versions of the three stings do

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