Competition by inhibitory oligonucleotides prevents binding of CpG to C-terminal TLR9

TLR9 recognizes unmethylated CpG-containing DNA commonly found in bacteria. Synthetic oligonucleotides containing CpG-motifs (CpG ODNs) recapitulate the activation of TLR9 by microbial DNA, whereas inversion of the CG dinucleotide within the CpG motif to GC (GpC ODNs) renders such ODNs inactive. Thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Avalos, Ana M., Ploegh, Hidde
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84991
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-6071