Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

TLR7 mediated viral recognition results in focal type I interferon secretion by dendritic cells

  • Shin-Ichiroh Saitoh,
  • Fumiko Abe,
  • Atsuo Kanno,
  • Natsuko Tanimura,
  • Yoshiko Mori Saitoh,
  • Ryutaro Fukui,
  • Takuma Shibata,
  • Katsuaki Sato,
  • Takeshi Ichinohe,
  • Mayumi Hayashi,
  • Kazuishi Kubota,
  • Hiroko Kozuka-Hata,
  • Masaaki Oyama,
  • Yorifumi Kikko,
  • Toshiaki Katada,
  • Kenji Kontani,
  • Kensuke Miyake

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01687-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Antiviral immune responses involve clustering of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) in response to endosomal TLR7-mediated sensing of viral RNA. Here the authors show the GTPase Arl8b controls translocation of TLR7+ endosomes to the periphery of the cell via microtubule interactions, thus enabling pDC clustering and type I interferon production.