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Molecular cloning and functional characterization of chicken toll-like receptors. A single chicken toll covers multiple molecular patterns.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 14 Dec 2001
Fukui A, Inoue N, Matsumoto M, Nomura M, Yamada K, Matsuda Y, Toyoshima K, Seya T
Abstract excerpt
Toll-like receptors (TLR) in the innate immune system have not been identified in non-mammalian vertebrates. Two types of TLR were cloned from a chicken bursa cDNA library using degenerate primers based on the consensus sequences of mouse and Drosophila Toll and designated as chicken TLR (chTLR) type 1 and type 2. Of the nine human TLRs reported to date, these chTLRs showed the highest homology to human TLR2. The...
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