CpG motifs: the active ingredient in bacterial extracts?

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Krieg, AM [1 ]
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[1] Coley Pharmaceut Grp, Wellesley, MA 02481 USA
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10.1038/nm0703-831
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The use of bacteria and bacterial extracts for immunotherapy has a checkered past. Recent developments in immunology reveal that these nonspecific immune activators actually work by triggering specific receptors that are expressed by subsets of immune cells. Identification of these receptors and the molecular signaling pathways that they activate has enabled a new era of specific targeted immunotherapy using chemically synthesized mimics of pathogen molecules.
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