Why Is IFN-λ Less Inflammatory? One IRF Decides.

Immunity

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address:

Published: September 2019

Type I and type III interferons (IFNs) activate similar antiviral transcriptional programs, but the type I IFN response is more inflammatory. In this issue of Immunity, Forero et al. find that selective induction of the transcription factor IRF1 promotes proinflammatory chemokine expression downstream of type I IFN signaling.

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