Energetics of Endotoxin Recognition in the Toll-Like Receptor 4 Innate Immune Response

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Paramo, Teresa ^a   Tomasio, Susana M ^a,b   Irvine, Kate L ^a   Bryant, Clare E ^a   Bond, Peter J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cresset BioMolecular Discovery Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MD 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

AGONISTS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ENDOTOXINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 96; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

EID: 84949559950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17997     Document Type: Article

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