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Tiina Susanna Salminen1, Mika Rämet2
1BioMediTech, University of Tampere, 33520 Tampere, Finland.
Cell Host & Microbe
|September 16, 2016
Abstract:
Immune responses must be tightly controlled to avoid host damage. In Drosophila, two NF-κB signaling pathways, Toll and Imd, mediate host immune responses. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Morris et al. (2016) introduce Pickle, a nuclear IκB that inhibits Drosophila immune signaling by modulating the NF-κB Relish.

