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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 292, Issue 50, Pages 20472-20480Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M117.818393
Keywords
cellular immune response; double-stranded RNA (dsRNA); natural killer cells (NK cells); pattern recognition receptor (PRR); virus; NKG2D; NKG2D ligands; dsRNA; self; non-self-discrimination; virus infection
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- Fondo de Investigacion Sanitaria (FIS) [PI11/00298, PS09/00181]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competividad (MINECO) [SAF2012-32293, SAF2014-54623, SAF2014-58752-R, SAF2015-69169-R]
- Comunidad de Madrid [S2010/BMD-2326]
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Self/non-self-discrimination by the innate immune system relies on germline-encoded, non-rearranging receptors expressed by innate immune cells recognizing conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns. The natural killer group 2D (NKG2D) receptor is a potent immune-activating receptor that binds human genome-encoded ligands, whose expression is negligible in normal tissues, but increased in stress and disease conditions for reasons that are incompletely understood. Here it is not clear how the immune system reconciles receptor binding of self-proteins with self/non-self-discrimination to avoid autoreactivity. We now report that increased expression of NKG2D ligands after virus infection depends on interferon response factors activated by the detection of viral double-stranded RNA by pattern-recognition receptors (RIG-I/MDA-5) and that NKG2D ligand up-regulation can be blocked by the expression of viral dsRNA-binding proteins. Thus, innate immunity-mediated recognition of viral nucleic acids triggers the infected cell to release interferon for NK cell recruitment and to express NKG2D ligands to become more visible to the immune system. Finally, the observation that NKG2D-ligand induction is a consequence of signaling by pattern-recognition receptors that have been selected over evolutionary time to be highly pathogen-specific explains how the risks of autoreactivity in this system are minimized.
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