Flies can turn off their immune response

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (biology.plosjournals.org)

After a role in initiating an NF-mediated innate immune response to microbial challenge, AP-1 and STAT act to form part of a repressosome to down-regulate the transcription of antimicrobial peptides and thus to resolve the immune response.

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