TWiV 222: Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a GAS GAS GAS
- Author
- Vincent Racaniello
- Published
- Sun 03 Mar 2013
- Episode Link
- http://www.twiv.tv/2013/03/03/twiv-222-jumpin-jack-flash-its-a-gas-gas-gas/
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
The complete TWiV team discusses the amazing finding that cyclic GMP-AMP synthase is a cytosolic innate immune DNA sensor.
Links for this episode:
- Zhijian J. Chen (Wikipedia)
- Sensing the dark side of DNA (Science)
- cGAMP is an endogenous second messenger (Science)
- cGAMP synthase is a DNA sensor (Science)
- Pore-forming toxin (Wikipedia)
- Letters read on TWiV 222
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