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Structural and functional analyses of the human Toll-like receptor 3. Role of glycosylation.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 21 Apr 2006
Sun Jingchuan, Duffy Karen E, Ranjith-Kumar C T, Xiong Jin, Lamb Roberta J, Santos Jon, Masarapu Hema, Cunningham Mark, Holzenburg Andreas, Sarisky Robert T, Mbow M Lamine, Kao Cheng
Abstract excerpt
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play critical roles in bridging the innate and adaptive immune responses. The human TLR3 recognizes foreign-derived double-stranded RNA and endogenous necrotic cell RNA as ligands. Herein we characterized the contribution of glycosylation to TLR3 structure and function. Exogenous addition of purified extracellular domain of TLR3 (hTLR3 ECD) expressed in human embryonic kidney cells was...
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