Snail and Twist promote expression of genes involved in cell migration, loss of cell-cell adhesion, loss of cell polarity, and increase the production of proteases that digest the basement membrane

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Inflammation due to necroptosis has been implicated in mediating major human inflammatory diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease,

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease and progressive atherosclerotic lesions

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Toll protein surprisingly revealed that its cytoplasmic signaling domain was homologous to that of the vertebrate receptor for the cytokine IL-1 (IL-1R).

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Apoptotic cells attract phagocytes by releasing the lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid, which functions as a chemoattractant.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

TLRs 1-10 are conserved between mice and humans, although TLR10 is not functional in mice, while TLRs 11-13 are expressed in mice but not in humans.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

In most cases each TLR dimerizes with itself, forming a homodimer, but TLR2 forms heterodimers by pairing with either TLR1 or TLR6.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Structures of TLR2/1 with a bound lipopeptide and TLR3 with dsRNA.