Abstract
Thiele et al. show that importin-α3 is one of the major nuclear transporters of NF-κB in the mammalian lung. High-level TNF-α-inducing HPAIVs inhibit importin-α3 mRNA transcription by interfering with its promoter activity. Thus, HPAIVs may evade antiviral immunity in the respiratory tract by generating a bottleneck in importin-α3 availability.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 107549 |
| Journal | Cell Reports |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| ISSN | 2211-1247 |
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| Publication status | Published - 21.04.2020 |
Funding
The Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology is supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Federal Ministry of Health. P.R.-I. was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ( 3.3SPA/1142463 STP-2 ). We thank Peter König (University of Lübeck, Germany) for his support with the laser microbeam microdissection. We thank Hans-Dieter Klenk and Volker Czudai-Matwich (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) for the human H5N1 and Ron Fouchier (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands) for the human H7N7 isolates. We thank Adam Grundhoff and Daniela Indenbrinken for the transcriptome analysis. We are grateful to Iris Alpers, Gökhan Arman-Kalcek, Christopher Bergfeld, Kathy Budler, Ilara Hudjetz, Lonneke Leijten, Hanna Markowsky, Annette Preuß, and Nele Twisselmann for excellent technical assistance.
Research Areas and Centers
- Academic Focus: Center for Infection and Inflammation Research (ZIEL)