Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Innate scavenger receptor-A regulates adaptive T helper cell responses to pathogen infection

  • Zhipeng Xu,
  • Lei Xu,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xin Jin,
  • Xian Song,
  • Xiaojun Chen,
  • Jifeng Zhu,
  • Sha Zhou,
  • Yong Li,
  • Weiwei Zhang,
  • Xiaoxiao Dong,
  • Xiaowei Yang,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Hui Bai,
  • Qi Chen,
  • Chuan Su

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16035
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Scavenger receptors can function as pattern recognition receptors to sense infection. Here the authors show that, in response to worm and bacterial infection, scavenger receptor class A prevents nuclear localization of IRF5 and thereby drives M2 polarization and associated type 2 immune responses.