title: Toll signaling: the enigma variations.
abstract: Experiments reported in the past year have revealed considerable diversity in Toll-mediated pathways for signal transduction in development and innate immunity. Rather than function as a well conserved signaling cassette, Toll receptors and associated factors have apparently evolved as a diverse set of configurations to defend against microbial infection in species ranging from plants to humans.
authors.affiliation: Center for Molecular Genetics, Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0634, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA. stevenw@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wasserman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D006801:Humans; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; D015398:Signal Transduction; D051198:Toll-Like Receptor 5; D051193:Toll-Like Receptors
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; C068721:Tl protein, Drosophila; D051198:Toll-Like Receptor 5; D051193:Toll-Like Receptors; C495341:tehao protein, Drosophila