Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

MLL5 suppresses antiviral innate immune response by facilitating STUB1-mediated RIG-I degradation

  • Peipei Zhou,
  • Xiaodan Ding,
  • Xiaoling Wan,
  • Lulu Liu,
  • Xiujie Yuan,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Xinhui Hui,
  • Guangxun Meng,
  • Hui Xiao,
  • Bin Li,
  • Jin Zhong,
  • Fajian Hou,
  • Lihwen Deng,
  • Yan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03563-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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MLL5 is an essential epigenetic modifier involved in cell cycle progression, chromatin architecture and hematopoiesis. Here the authors establish that MLL5 suppresses the innate immune response in a murine model of virus infection by targeting and promoting degradation of RIG-I.