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Reptile Toll-like receptor 5 unveils adaptive evolution of bacterial flagellin recognition
Toll-like receptors (TLR) are ancient innate immune receptors crucial for immune homeostasis and protection against infection. TLRs are present in mammals, birds, amphibians and fish but have not been functionally characterized in reptiles despite the central position of this animal class in vertebr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26738735 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19046 |