Homology modeling of human Toll-like receptors TLR7, 8, and 9 ligand-binding domains

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1684-1691

  Wei, Tiandi ^a   Gong, Jing ^a,d   Jamitzky, Ferdinand ^a,b   Heckl, Wolfgang M ^a,c   Stark, Robert W ^a   Rössle, Shaila C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHES MUSEUM   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homology modeling; Leucine rich repeats; Protein nucleic acid interaction; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

EID: 67749108047     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.186     Document Type: Article

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