Interferon-λ in the context of viral infections: production, response and therapeutic implications

P Hermant, T Michiels - Journal of innate immunity, 2014 - karger.com
… By comparing viral infection in wild-type, IFNLR1 0/0 , IFNAR 0/0 and double-knockout mice…
contribution of IFN-λ to the control of viral infection greatly varied according to the virus [13]. …

Lambda interferon (IFN-λ), a type III IFN, is induced by viruses and IFNs and displays potent antiviral activity against select virus infections in vivo

N Ank, H West, C Bartholdy, K Eriksson… - Journal of …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
… In order to evaluate the antiviral activity of IFN-λ in vivo, we … viral infection to test whether
IFN-λ or IFN-α treatment could protect the mice from viral infection: C57BL/6 mice were infected

The impact of the interferon-lambda family on the innate and adaptive immune response to viral infections

A Egli, DM Santer, D O'Shea, DL Tyrrell… - … microbes & infections, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… Type-III interferons (IFN-λ, IFNL) are the most recently … biology of IFNL during viral infection,
and the implications of this … IFNLs exert antiviral effects via induction of IFN-stimulated genes…

Interferons and viral infections

V Fensterl, GC Sen - Biofactors, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
IFN-λ receptor IL10R2/IFNLR1 (Table 1) and their genes are clustered on human chromosome
19. Similarly to type I IFN, their inducibility by virus infection appears to be ubiquitous [6]. …

Dynamics of IFN-β responses during respiratory viral infection. Insights for therapeutic strategies

A Watson, CM Spalluto, C McCrae… - American journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
… This study describes the dynamics of IFN-β responses to viral infection using lung infection
… other IFN pathways such as IFN-λ could also be effective at modulating viral infections (36–39…

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
… to IFN-λ, whereas other cells of the gut mainly rely on IFN-α/β for antiviral defense. We suggest
that IFN-λ may have evolved as an autonomous virus … frequent triggering of the IFN-α/β …

Inborn errors of interferon (IFN)‐mediated immunity in humans: insights into the respective roles of IFN‐α/β, IFN‐γ, and IFNλ in host defense

SY Zhang, S Boisson‐Dupuis, A Chapgier… - Immunological …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… of and response to IFN-α/β during viral infections. The TLR3-UNC-93B-… viral infections.
This observation suggests that UNC-93B-dependent, virus-induced IFN-α, IFN-β, and IFN-λ

Lambda Interferon Is the Predominant Interferon Induced by Influenza A Virus Infection In Vivo

NA Jewell, T Cline, SE Mertz, SV Smirnov… - Journal of …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
IFN receptor, we demonstrate that intranasal influenza A virus infection leads to the robust
type III IFN … from HK-X31 virus with IFN-λ expression, we measured IFN-λ protein levels in BAL …

IFN-λ prevents influenza virus spread from the upper airways to the lungs and limits virus transmission

J Klinkhammer, D Schnepf, L Ye, M Schwaderlapp… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
… In contrast, the protective role of IFN-λ during viral infections of the small intestine was … IFN-λ
is more potent in containing viral infections within the upper respiratory tract than type I IFN. …

Interferon-lambda: a potent regulator of intestinal viral infections

S Lee, MT Baldridge - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… to infection. Importantly, recombinant IFN-λ has therapeutic potential against enteric viral
infections… recent advances regarding IFN-λ-mediated regulation of enteric viruses with important …