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Identification of an N-terminal recognition site in TLR9 that contributes to CpG-DNA-mediated receptor activation.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Jun 2009
Peter Mirjam E, Kubarenko Andriy V, Weber Alexander N R, Dalpke Alexander H
Abstract excerpt
Although it is well established that TLR9 recognizes CpG-DNA, the structural details of ligand-receptor interaction are still mostly unknown. The extracellular domain of TLR9 is composed of 25 leucine-rich repeat (LRR) motifs, 5 of which bear inserting sequences that do not conform to the LRR consensus motif. In this study, we show that the functional integrity of the extracellular domain of murine TLR9 is lost...
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