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Extolling the diversity of bacterial endotoxins

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It is part of the immunologic lexicon that Toll receptors are integral parts of the innate immune response machinery. What ligands they bind, however, is only now beginning to be elucidated.

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Figure 1: Summary of TLR agonists, coreceptors and signal transduction pathways.

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Golenbock, D., Fenton, M. Extolling the diversity of bacterial endotoxins. Nat Immunol 2, 286–288 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/86289

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