Phylogenetic variation and polymorphism at the Toll-like receptor 4 locus (TLR4)

Genome Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Smirnova, Irina ^a   Poltorak, Alexander ^a   Chan, Edward Kl ^b   McBride, Colleen ^a   Beutler, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial Artificial Chromosome; Cytoplasmic Domain; Extracellular Domain; Human Bacterial Artificial Chromosome; Tlr4 Gene

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TLR4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TLR4 PROTEIN, RAT; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; MOUSE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033648133     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-1-research002     Document Type: Article

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