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SUBMITTER: Versteeg GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3584420 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Immunity 20130201 2
Innate immunity conferred by the type I interferon is critical for antiviral defense. To date only a limited number of tripartite motif (TRIM) proteins have been implicated in modulation of innate immunity and anti-microbial activity. Here we report the complementary DNA cloning and systematic analysis of all known 75 human TRIMs. We demonstrate that roughly half of the 75 TRIM-family members enhanced the innate immune response and that they do this at multiple levels in signaling pathways. More ...[more]