Toll-Like Receptor 9 Activation with CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides for Asthma Therapy*

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Prokaryotic DNA has long been recognized as immunostimulatory. In the last decade the role played by CpG motifs (nucleotide sequence motifs centered on a cytosine-guanine dinucleotide) in bacterial and viral DNA has been elucidated. CpG motifs are detected by the innate immune pattern recognition receptor Toll-like receptor (TLR) 9, the ligation of which activates multiple signal cascades in responding cells. A...

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