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CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

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Illustration of the role of TASL (in gold and blue) and SLC15A4 (in green) in the initiation of the immune response. After the detection of pathogen-derived genetic material by TLRs (in blue and pink), SLC15A4 and TASL activates IRF5, which moves to the nucleus and activates immune and inflammatory genes

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