Viral recognition and the antiviral interferon response

L Dalskov, HH Gad, R Hartmann - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
Interferons (IFNs) are antiviral cytokines that play a key role in the innate immune response
to viral infections. In response to viral stimuli, cells produce and release interferons, which …

Lysine acetylation goes global: from epigenetics to metabolism and therapeutics

I Ali, RJ Conrad, E Verdin, M Ott - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational acetylation of lysine residues has emerged as a key regulatory
mechanism in all eukaryotic organisms. Originally discovered in 1963 as a unique …

DNA-dependent formation of transcription factor pairs alters their binding specificity

A Jolma, Y Yin, KR Nitta, K Dave, A Popov, M Taipale… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Gene expression is regulated by transcription factors (TFs), proteins that recognize short
DNA sequence motifs,,. Such sequences are very common in the human genome, and an …

Interferons and viruses: an interplay between induction, signalling, antiviral responses and virus countermeasures

RE Randall, S Goodbourn - Journal of general virology, 2008 - microbiologyresearch.org
The interferon (IFN) system is an extremely powerful antiviral response that is capable of
controlling most, if not all, virus infections in the absence of adaptive immunity. However …

[HTML][HTML] Structural perspective of cooperative transcription factor binding

E Morgunova, J Taipale - Current opinion in structural biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Transcription factors can cooperate with each other via multiple mechanisms that
have different specificities and ranges.•Cooperativity can result from direct protein–protein …

An overview of inflammation: mechanism and consequences

AU Ahmed - Frontiers in Biology, 2011 - Springer
Inflammation is an essential response provided by the immune systems that ensures the
survival during infection and tissue injury. Inflammatory responses are essential for the …

TF-DUBTACs stabilize tumor suppressor transcription factors

J Liu, X Yu, H Chen, HU Kaniskan, L Xie… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Targeted protein degradation approaches have been widely used for degrading oncogenic
proteins, providing a potentially promising therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment …

[HTML][HTML] The renal lineage factor PAX8 controls oncogenic signalling in kidney cancer

SA Patel, S Hirosue, P Rodrigues, E Vojtasova… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Large-scale human genetic data,–have shown that cancer mutations display strong tissue-
selectivity, but how this selectivity arises remains unclear. Here, using experimental models …

A genomic regulatory element that directs assembly and function of immune-specific AP-1–IRF complexes

E Glasmacher, S Agrawal, AB Chang, TL Murphy… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Interferon regulatory factor 4 (IRF4) and IRF8 regulate B, T, macrophage, and dendritic cell
differentiation. They are recruited to cis-regulatory Ets-IRF composite elements by PU. 1 or …

[HTML][HTML] An atomic model of the interferon-β enhanceosome

D Panne, T Maniatis, SC Harrison - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
Transcriptional activation of the interferon-β (IFN-β) gene requires assembly of an
enhanceosome containing ATF-2/c-Jun, IRF-3/IRF-7, and NFκB. These factors bind …