MD-2: The Toll 'gatekeeper' in endotoxin signalling

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 294-300

  Gangloff, Monique ^a   Gay, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LIPID A; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION 2 PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ACYLATION; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BINDING AFFINITY; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DERMATOPHAGOIDES; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHOCK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PYRONIA TITHONUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242776258     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2004.04.008     Document Type: Article

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