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  3. IRFs: master regulators of signalling by Toll-like receptors and cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors

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

  • Nat Rev Immunol. 2006 Sep;6(9):644-58. doi: 10.1038/nri1900.
Kenya Honda 1,  Tadatsugu Taniguchi
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
PMID: 16932750 DOI: 10.1038/nri1900
Abstract

The interferon-regulatory factor (IRF) family of transcription factors was initially found to be involved in the induction of genes that encode type I interferons. IRFs have now been shown to have functionally diverse roles in the regulation of the immune system. Recently, the crucial involvement of IRFs in innate and adaptive immune responses has been gaining much attention, particularly with the discovery of their role in immunoregulation by Toll-like receptors and other pattern-recognition receptors.

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