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... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Receptors, Cell Surface > Receptors, Immunologic > Receptors, Pattern Recognition > Toll-Like Receptors

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Toll-Like Receptors  

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Entry terms

  • Receptors, Toll Like
  • Receptors, Toll-Like
  • Receptor, Toll-Like
  • Toll Like Receptor
  • Toll-Like Receptor

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Scope note

  • A family of pattern recognition receptors characterized by an extracellular leucine-rich domain and a cytoplasmic domain that share homology with the INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR and the DROSOPHILA toll protein. Following pathogen recognition, toll-like receptors recruit and activate a variety of SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEINS.

History note

  • 2006(1998)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D051193

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