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Intercellular communication in the innate immune system through the cGAS-STING pathway

Ramya Nandakumar1, Samuel Joseph Windross1, Søren R Paludan1

  • 1Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; Aarhus Research Center for Innate Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.

Methods in Enzymology
|August 29, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Cell-cell interactionsExtracellular vesiclesInnate immunityInterferon

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