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Nature Immunology  4, 650 - 652 (2003)
doi:10.1038/ni0703-650

T-bet: The Toll-bridge to class-switch recombination?

Ian R Rifkin & Ann Marshak-Rothstein

Ian R. Rifkin is in the Department of Medicine and Ann Marshak-Rothstein is in the Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA. irifkin@bu.edu and amrothst@bu.edu

CpG signaling through TLR9 elicits type 1 cytokine production, which can suppress IgE-associated hypersensitivity reactions. CpG also acts directly on B cells by inducing STAT1-independent T-bet expression.

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