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Activation of the Antiviral Kinase PKR and Viral Countermeasures

Bianca Dauber1, Thorsten Wolff

  • 1Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta, 632 Heritage Medical Research Center, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2S2, Canada.

Viruses
|October 14, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
PKRdsRNAimmune evasioninnate immunityvirus

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