A Decoy Peptide that Disrupts TIRAP Recruitment to TLRs Is Protective in a Murine Model of Influenza

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) activate distinct, yet overlapping sets of signaling molecules, leading to inflammatory responses to pathogens. Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domains, present in all TLRs and TLR adapters, mediate protein interactions downstream of activated TLRs. A peptide library der...

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Main Authors: Wenji Piao, Kari Ann Shirey, Lisa W. Ru, Wendy Lai, Henryk Szmacinski, Greg A. Snyder, Eric J. Sundberg, Joseph R. Lakowicz, Stefanie N. Vogel, Vladimir Y. Toshchakov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-06-01
Series:Cell Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715005719