title: Learning the codes of fly immunity.
abstract: Insect antimicrobial response serves as an excellent model for studying human innate immunity. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Senger and colleagues demonstrate that a large number of immunity genes in Drosophila fat bodies can be regulated by a simple code, REL-GATA.
authors.affiliation: Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 373 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
authors.forename: Raul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bettencourt
authors.forename: Y Tony
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Ip
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D005216:Fat Body / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D017344:Genes, Insect; D007109:Immunity / Q000235:genetics*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors