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Aliases: Toll-like receptor 4
  • Systems Analogy A tripwire alarm on cell surfaces that alerts the immune system to bacterial invaders.
  • Formal Definition Toll-like receptor 4; a cell-surface pattern recognition receptor that binds to bacterial LPS and triggers the intracellular MyD88/NF-kB pathway, driving inflammatory cytokine expression.

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