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SUBMITTER: Noor Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4835063 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Noor Zannatun Z Burgess Stacey L SL Watanabe Koji K Petri William A WA
PloS one 20160418 4
The intestinal surface is directly exposed to both commensal microorganisms as well as pathogens with a single layer of epithelium separating luminal microorganisms from internal tissues. Antimicrobial peptides play a crucial role in allowing epithelial cells to contain in the lumen beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms. The commensal dependent, epithelial produced, Th2 cytokine IL-25 can induce IL-13 and potentially the antimicrobial peptide angiogenin-4. Here we show that IL-13 downstream o ...[more]