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Structure of the mouse Toll-like receptor 13 ectodomain in complex with a conserved sequence from bacterial 23S
Jiawei Wang1,2, Jijie Chai2,3,4, Hongwei Wang2,3,4
1State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
Toll-like receptor 13 (TLR13) recognizes a conserved 10-nucleotide sequence from bacterial 23S ribosomal RNA, and binding of TLR13 to the target rRNA molecule triggers immune responses. Recently, the crystal structure of the TLR13 ectodomain bound by a 13-nucleotide single-stranded RNA (ssRNA13) was determined by using the initial phases provided by a cryo-electron microscopy map of TLR13 in complex with a 25-nucleotide ssRNA (ssRNA25). This structural snapshot describes a unique method for solving the crystal structure of the TLR13-ssRNA13 complex based on medium-resolution reconstruction of TLR13-ssRNA25 cryo-electron microscopy images.
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