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SUBMITTER: Chinnathambi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3405294 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chinnathambi Shanmugavel S Chen Song S Ganesan Singaravelu S Hanagata Nobutaka N
Scientific reports 20120726
The interaction of cytosine-phosphate-guanine oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) with Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) activates the immune system. Multimeric class A CpG ODNs induce interferon-α (IFN-α) and, to a lesser extent, interleukin-6. By contrast, monomeric class B CpG ODNs induce interleukin-6 but not IFN-α. This difference suggests that the multimerization of CpG ODN molecules is a key factor in IFN-α induction. We multimerized class B CpG ODN2006x3-PD molecules that consist entirely of a ph ...[more]