Opposing roles for interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF-3) and type I interferon signaling during plague.

Type I interferons (IFN-I) broadly control innate immunity and are typically transcriptionally induced by Interferon Regulatory Factors (IRFs) following stimulation of pattern recognition receptors within the cytosol of host cells. For bacterial infection, IFN-I signaling can result in widely varian...

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Main Authors: Ami A Patel, Hanni Lee-Lewis, Jennifer Hughes-Hanks, Craig A Lewis, Deborah M Anderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3406097?pdf=render