Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 is an antiviral regulator acting through the proto-oncogene MET

  • Takayoshi Shirasaki,
  • Satoshi Yamagoe,
  • Tetsuro Shimakami,
  • Kazuhisa Murai,
  • Ryu Imamura,
  • Kiyo-Aki Ishii,
  • Hiroaki Takayama,
  • Yukako Matsumoto,
  • Natsumi Tajima-Shirasaki,
  • Naoto Nagata,
  • Ryogo Shimizu,
  • Souma Yamanaka,
  • Atsushi Abe,
  • Hitoshi Omura,
  • Kazunori Kawaguchi,
  • Hikari Okada,
  • Taro Yamashita,
  • Tomoki Yoshikawa,
  • Kazuhiro Takimoto,
  • Motoko Taharaguchi,
  • Shogo Takatsuka,
  • Yoshitsugu Miyazaki,
  • Toshikatsu Tamai,
  • Yamato Tanabe,
  • Makoto Kurachi,
  • Yasuhiko Yamamoto,
  • Shuichi Kaneko,
  • Kunio Matsumoto,
  • Toshinari Takamura,
  • Masao Honda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30879-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The innate antiviral immune response is an important defense against infection. Here, the authors show that leukocyte cell-derived chemotaxin 2 (LECT2) promotes RIG-I-mediated innate immune responses by preventing its degradation, and inhibits lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus replication in the liver.