Cutting edge: repurification of lipopolysaccharide eliminates signaling through both human and murine toll-like receptor 2

M Hirschfeld, Y Ma, JH Weis, SN Vogel… - The Journal of …, 2000 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 has recently been associated with cellular responses to
numerous microbial products, including LPS and bacterial lipoproteins. However, many …

Toll-like receptor 4, but not toll-like receptor 2, is a signaling receptor for Escherichia and Salmonella lipopolysaccharides

RI Tapping, S Akashi, K Miyake… - The Journal of …, 2000 - journals.aai.org
Two members of the mammalian Toll-like receptor (TLR) family, TLR2 and TLR4, have been
implicated as receptors mediating cellular activation in response to bacterial LPS. Through …

Toll-like receptor 4 imparts ligand-specific recognition of bacterial lipopolysaccharide

E Lien, TK Means, H Heine… - The Journal of …, 2000 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the main inducer of shock and death in Gram-negative sepsis.
Recent evidence suggests that LPS-induced signal transduction begins with CD14 …

Two lipoproteins extracted from Escherichia coli K-12 LCD25 lipopolysaccharide are the major components responsible for Toll-like receptor 2-mediated signaling

HK Lee, J Lee, PS Tobias - The Journal of Immunology, 2002 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)-mediated cell activation induced by commercial
preparations of LPS was recently shown to arise from impurities whose identities are not …

Essential roles of CD14 and lipopolysaccharide‐binding protein for activation of toll‐like receptor (TLR) 2 as well as TLR4: reconstitution of TLR2‐and TLR4‐activation …

T Muta, K Takeshige - European journal of biochemistry, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Although genetic studies have revealed a critical role for the toll‐like receptor (TLR) 4 in the
biological response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the activities of ectopically expressed TLR4 …

Cutting edge: Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-deficient mice are hyporesponsive to lipopolysaccharide: evidence for TLR4 as the Lps gene product

K Hoshino, O Takeuchi, T Kawai, H Sanjo… - The Journal of …, 1999 - journals.aai.org
The human homologue of Drosophila Toll (hToll), also called Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), is a
recently cloned receptor of the IL-1/Toll receptor family. Interestingly, the TLR4 gene has …

“Dirty little secrets”—endotoxin contamination of recombinant proteins

SJ Wakelin, I Sabroe, CD Gregory, IR Poxton… - Immunology letters, 2006 - Elsevier
The identification of Toll-like receptors has revolutionised our understanding of innate
immunity. TLR4 transduces the LPS signal and that of a number of structurally and …

Co-operative induction of pro-inflammatory signaling by Toll-like receptors

A Ozinsky, KD Smith, D Hume… - Journal of endotoxin …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) mediate detection of a broad range of pathogens and pathogen-
derived products including LPS, peptidoglycan, bacterial lipopeptides, and lipoteichoic acid …

Cutting edge: cells that carry A null allele for toll-like receptor 2 are capable of responding to endotoxin

H Heine, CJ Kirschning, E Lien, BG Monks… - The Journal of …, 1999 - journals.aai.org
Abstract Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4 have been implicated in the responses of cells
to LPS (endotoxin). CD14-transfected Chinese hamster ovary (CHO)-K1 fibroblasts …

Counteracting interactions between lipopolysaccharide molecules with differential activation of Toll-like receptors

G Hajishengallis, M Martin, RE Schifferle… - Infection and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
We investigated counteracting interactions between the lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from
Escherichia coli (Ec-LPS) and Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg-LPS), which induce cellular …