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ArticleBMC biology2019

Role of self-organising myddosome oligomers in inflammatory signalling by Toll-like receptors.

Nicholas J Gay

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Article in BMC biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Toll-Like Receptors as a Therapeutic Target in the Era of Immunotherapies.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Nicholas J GayDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK. njg11@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust WT100321/Z/12
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A paper published in BMC Biology characterises biophysically oligomeric and filamentous structures formed spontaneously by the Toll-like receptor signalling adaptor MyD88. Naturally occurring mutants of MyD88 that cause immunodeficiency are unable to form these structures. By contrast a somatic mutant that promotes the survival of tumour cells forms oligomers much more readily than the wild-type protein. These findings suggest that assembly of oligomeric MyD88 is critical for the regulation of inflammatory signalling.

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Immune SystemMutationMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88Signal TransductionToll-Like ReceptorsMyeloid Differentiation Factor 88Toll-Like Receptors

Identifiers

PMID30786893
PMCPMC6383289

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