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MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 206, Issue 3, Pages 187-193Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00430-017-0495-0
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis; MyD88; Phagosome; Regulation of inflammation
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MyD88 adaptor protein mediates numerous biologically important signal transduction pathways in innate immunity. MyD88 signaling fosters bacterial containment and is necessary to raise an adequate innate and acquired immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The phagosome is a crucial cellular location not only for Mtb replication, but it is also where components of the Myddosome and inflammasome are recruited. Besides its function as a TLR-adaptor protein, MyD88 may help stabilizing cytosolic receptors that are recruited to the phagosome. MyD88 plays a critical role not only in the generation of an inflammatory response, but also in inducing regulatory signals to prevent excessive inflammation and cellular damage in the lung.
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