IRFs: Master regulators of signalling by Toll-like receptors and cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 644-658

  Honda, Kenya ^a   Taniguchi, Tadatsugu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CYCLOPHILIN B; INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSOL; DISEASE; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; RECEPTORS, PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 33748051738     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1900     Document Type: Review

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