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Identification and Characterization of a Novel Bacterial Virulence Factor That Shares Homology with Mammalian Toll/Interleukin-1 Receptor Family Proteins
20 Dec 2005
Abstract excerpt
Many important bacterial virulence factors act as mimics of mammalian proteins to subvert normal host cell processes. To identify bacterial protein mimics of components of the innate immune signaling pathway, we searched the bacterial genome database for proteins with homology to the Toll/interleukin-1 receptor (TIR) domain of the mammalian Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and their adaptor proteins. A previously...
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