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SUBMITTER: Sears N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3190878 | biostudies-other | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sears Nathaniel N Sen Ganes C GC Stark George R GR Chattopadhyay Saurabh S
The Journal of biological chemistry 20110804 38
Interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF-3) plays a central role in inducing the expression of cellular antiviral genes, including the interferon-β gene, in response to Pattern Recognition Receptors. IRF-3 is targeted for proteasome-mediated degradation, which modulates the strength and duration of the innate immune responses that depend on it. We have found that caspase-8, which is activated by cytosolic RIG-I-dependent signaling, catalyzes an essential intermediate step in the ubiquitination and pr ...[more]