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ArticleScience immunology2024

Waking the sleeping giant: Single-stranded DNA binds Schlafen 11 to initiate innate immune responses.

Stephanie A Ragland, Jonathan C Kagan

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Article in Science immunology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Human Schlafen 14 Cleavage of Short Double-Stranded RNAs Underpins its Antiviral Activity.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Stephanie A RaglandDivision of Gastroenterology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3614-2652
Jonathan C KaganDivision of Gastroenterology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2364-2746

Funding

STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ALIMENTARY TRACTP30DK034854 · NIDDK · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WAYNE I LENCER · 1986 to 2026
$32.4M
Project 2: Genes required for dendritic cell responses to pathogens and T cellsU19AI133524 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SHARPE, ARLENE H. · 2017 to 2021
$12.3M
Initiation and Regulation of Antiviral Innate ImmunityR01AI093589 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI KAGAN, JONATHAN C · 2011 to 2020
$4.4M
Regulation of immunity by the cGAS-STING pathwayR01AI167993 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI JONATHAN C KAGAN · 2022 to 2026
$3.9M
Defining the pathways activated by Toll-like Receptors to stimulate immunityR37AI116550 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI JONATHAN C KAGAN · 2021 to 2026
$3.3M
Characterization of the myddosome, a protein complex that controls TLR signalingR01AI116550 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI KAGAN, JONATHAN C · 2017 to 2020
$1.8M
Initiation and Regulation of Antiviral Innate ImmunityR56AI093589 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI KAGAN, JONATHAN C · 2021 to 2021
$531k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI093589NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI116550NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI167993NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI116550NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI093589NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI133524NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034854
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-stranded DNA containing CGT/A motifs binds to the helicase domain of Schlafen 11 (SLFN11) to initiate cell death and cytokine production via SLFN11 ribonuclease activity (see related Research Article by Zhang

Indexed as

DNA, Single-StrandedImmunity, InnateAnimalsHumansNuclear ProteinsRibonucleasesDNA, Single-StrandedNuclear ProteinsRibonucleasesSLFN11 protein, human

Identifiers

PMID38875318
PMCPMC12337006

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