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Special Topic: CpG Motifs

Editorial: CpG Motifs to Modulate Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses

Pages 125-134 | Published online: 03 Aug 2009
 

Abstract

The vertebrate adaptive and innate immune systems have evolved to protect the host from pathogen infections. To achieve this mission, the innate immune system developed particular receptors, termed “pattern recognition receptors” (PRRs). These PRRs selectively bind certain types of structures expressed by pathogens but in principal absent in vertebrates. One of the best understood receptors is the Toll-like receptor (TLR) 9 that recognizes CpG sequence motifs in bacterial and viral DNA. Different classes of short synthetic phosphorothioate-stabilized CpG oligodeoxynucleotides were developed and are currently in human clinical trials in the fields of infectious disease, cancer, and asthma/allergy.

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