Drosophila toll pathway: The new model

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 52, 2009, Pages

  Ashok, Yashwanth ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PERSEPHONE; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BACILLUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; REVIEW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; POSIBACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 62349130611     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.252jc1     Document Type: Note

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