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Identification of an optimized 2'-O-methylated trinucleotide RNA motif inhibiting Toll-like receptors 7 and 8.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Sept 2017
Schmitt Felix C F, Freund Isabel, Weigand Markus A, Helm Mark, Dalpke Alexander H, Eigenbrod Tatjana
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial RNA serves an important function as activator of the innate immune system. In humans bacterial RNA is sensed by the endosomal receptors TLR7 and TLR8. Differences in the posttranscriptional modification profile of prokaryotic when compared with eukaryotic RNA allow innate immune cells to discriminate between "host" and "foreign" RNA. Ribose 2'-O-methylation is of particular importance and has been...
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