IFN-lambda (IFN-λ) is expressed in a tissue-dependent fashion and primarily acts on epithelial cells in vivo

C Sommereyns, S Paul, P Staeheli, T Michiels - PLoS pathogens, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… , that the response to IFN-λ involves primarily epithelial cells, at least in the kidney and in the
… response to IFN-λ was notably prominent in cells of the pluristratifiated urinary epithelium. In …

IFN-λ determines the intestinal epithelial antiviral host defense

J Pott, T Mahlakõiv, M Mordstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
… , we demonstrate that intestinal epithelial cells, which are the prime target cells of rotavirus,
strongly responded to IFN-λ but only marginally to type I IFN in vivo. Systemic treatment of …

Identification of a predominantly interferon-λ-induced transcriptional profile in murine intestinal epithelial cells

TA Selvakumar, S Bhushal, U Kalinke, D Wirth… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… predominantly induced by IFN-λ 2 . We confirm the influence of epithelial cell polarization for
… predominantly IFN-λ 2 -induced genes in the gut epithelium in vivo. Our results suggest that …

Toll-like receptor expression and induction of type I and type III interferons in primary airway epithelial cells

I Ioannidis, F Ye, B McNally, M Willette… - Journal of virology, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
epithelial cells (AECs) and the consequences of TLR agonist stimulation for the production of
type I (IFN-α/β) and type III (IFN-λ) … First, in order to validate our in vitro model, we examined …

Exogenous IFN-β has antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties in primary bronchial epithelial cells from asthmatic subjects exposed to rhinovirus

JA Cakebread, Y Xu, C Grainge, V Kehagia… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
… A defect in the ability of asthmatic bronchial epithelial cells (BECs) to produce IFN-β, IFN-λ, …
doses in our in vitro model with those required in vivo because delivery of IFN-β into the …

Respiratory virus induction of alpha‐, beta‐and lambdainterferons in bronchial epithelial cells and peripheral blood mononuclear cells

MR Khaitov, V Laza‐Stanca, MR Edwards, RP Walton… - Allergy, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… In PBMCs interferon-α, interferon-β and interferon-λ mRNAs … epithelial cells (BECs) from
asthmatic subjects exposed to RV in vitro had profoundly impaired production of interferon (IFN)-…

Interferon-γ regulation of intestinal epithelial permeability

C Beaurepaire, D Smyth, DM McKay - Journal of Interferon and …, 2009 - liebertpub.com
epithelial cell lines and, to a less extent, murine in vivo analyses, have revealed that interferon
(IFN-γ) can increase epithelialepithelial permeability and then focus on the ability of IFN

Lambda interferon renders epithelial cells of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts resistant to viral infections

M Mordstein, E Neugebauer, V Ditt, B Jessen… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
… that lung epithelial cells abundantly express functional IFN-λEpithelial cells of the intestine
express functional IFN-λ … to in vivo electroporation of a plasmid encoding mouse IFN-λ3 was …

IFN-lambda preferably inhibits PEDV infection of porcine intestinal epithelial cells compared with IFN-alpha

L Li, F Fu, M Xue, W Chen, J Liu, H Shi, J Chen, Z Bu… - Antiviral research, 2017 - Elsevier
IFN-L toward controlling the infection of PEDV in vitro. IFN-L preferentially acts on epithelial
cells because IFNLR1 is expressed primarily on the epithelial cells of the gastrointestinal …

Leukocyte-derived IFN-α/β and epithelial IFN-λ constitute a compartmentalized mucosal defense system that restricts enteric virus infections

T Mahlakoiv, P Hernandez, K Gronke… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
epithelial cells do not express functional receptors for IFN-α/β. We further demonstrate that
virus-infected intestinal epithelial cells are potent producers of IFN-λ, … for in vivo IFN treatment, …