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iRhom2 is required for the secretion of mouse TNFα.
Blood - 14 Jun 2012
Siggs Owen M, Xiao Nengming, Wang Ying, Shi Hexin, Tomisato Wataru, Li Xiaohong, Xia Yu, Beutler Bruce
Abstract excerpt
TNFα is a powerful inflammatory stimulus, central both to the control of infection, and as an agent of inflammatory disease. The most potent inducers of TNFα secretion signal through the Toll-like receptors, and we describe here a chemically-induced mutation that impairs this response in macrophages. A missense mutation was revealed in the gene encoding the inactive rhomboid protease iRhom2, which was not...
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