Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

TLR3 forms a laterally aligned multimeric complex along double-stranded RNA for efficient signal transduction

  • Kentaro Sakaniwa,
  • Akiko Fujimura,
  • Takuma Shibata,
  • Hideki Shigematsu,
  • Toru Ekimoto,
  • Masaki Yamamoto,
  • Mitsunori Ikeguchi,
  • Kensuke Miyake,
  • Umeharu Ohto,
  • Toshiyuki Shimizu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35844-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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TLR3 activates a potent immune response by binding to dsRNA. Here the authors report cryo-EM analyses to show that TLR3 dimers laterally form a higher multimeric complex along dsRNA, providing the basis for cooperative binding and efficient signal transduction.