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Essential function in vivo for Dicer-2 in host defense against RNA viruses in drosophila.
Nature immunology - 1 Jun 2006
Galiana-Arnoux Delphine, Dostert Catherine, Schneemann Anette, Hoffmann Jules A, Imler Jean-Luc
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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is a model system for studying innate immunity, including antiviral host defense. Infection with drosophila C virus triggers a transcriptional response that is dependent in part on the Jak kinase Hopscotch. Here we show that successful infection and killing of drosophila with the insect nodavirus flock house virus was strictly dependent on expression of the viral protein B2,...
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