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Research Progress on Antiviral Effect of MDA5 in Innate Immunity

LIU Huan-huan, XIE Li-jun, SHAO Zhi-yong, GAO Hong, YAN Yu-lin   

  1. College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China
  • Received:2014-07-14 Online:2015-01-20 Published:2015-02-06

Abstract: Melanoma differentiation-associated gene-5 (MDA5) was a nucleic acid receptor in the cytoplasm, in combination with pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), which specifically recognized a long double-stranded RNA, function was similar with retinoic acid-inducude gene Ⅰ (RIG-Ⅰ), after CARD-CARD interaction, it was combinated with the adaptor protein MAVS (also called VISA, Cardif or IPS-1), the interaction might result in the reposition of RLRs in intima, one side it recruited TRAF2/TRAF6 to activate IKK kinase complexes, thereby activating the transcription factor NF-κB; on the other side it recruited TRAF3 and TBK1, thereby promoting phosphorylated activation of IRF3, after activations of the transcription factor NF-κB and IRF, they would enter the nucleus, and work together to promote the expression of type Ⅰ interferon gene.

Key words: MDA5; adaptor protein; phosphorylation; type Ⅰ interferon

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