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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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Autores principales: Voogdt, Carlos G. P., Bouwman, Lieneke I., Kik, Marja J. L., Wagenaar, Jaap A., van Putten, Jos P. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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