TLR3 signaling is downregulated by a MAVS isoform in epithelial cells.

Cell Immunol

Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States; Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States.

Published: December 2016

Innate immune responses to dsRNA result in signaling through the TLR3 pathway and/or the RIG-I/MDA-5/MAVS pathway which can activate type I IFN, proinflammatory cytokines and apoptosis. It is not clear whether MAVS could play a role in TLR3-dependent responses to extracellular dsRNA. Using a model of epithelial cells that express a functional TLR3 signaling pathway, we found that TLR3-dependent responses to extracellular dsRNA are negatively regulated by MAVS, precisely "miniMAVS", a recently described 50kDa isoform of MAVS. This regulation of TLR3 by a MAVS isoform constitutes an endogenous regulatory mechanism in epithelial cells that could help prevent a potentially damaging excessive inflammatory response.

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