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editorial
. 2006 Apr 14;12(14):2149–2160. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i14.2149

Table 1.

Toll-like receptors and known microbial ligands[4,7,18]

TLR family Microbial ligands
Lipid ligands
TLR1 Tri-acyl lipopeptides (bacteria, mycobacteria)
TLR2 Lipoprotein/lipopeptides (a variety of pathogens)
Peptidoglycan (Gram-positive bacteria)
Lipoteichoic acid (Gram-positive bacteria)
Lipoarabinomannan (mycobacteria)
A phenol-soluble modulin (Staphylococcus epidermidis)
Glycoinositolphospholipids (Trypanosoma Cruzi)
Glycolipids (Treponema maltophilum)
Porins (Neisseria)
Zymosan (fungi)
Atypical LPS (Leptospira interrogans and Porphyromonas gingivalis)
Hemagglutinin (measles)
TLR4 LPS (Gram-negative bacteria)
Fusion protein (respiratory syncytial virus)
Envelope proteins (mouse mammary tumor virus)
HSP60 (Chlamydia pneumoniae)
TLR6 Di-acyl lipopeptides (mycoplasma)
Nucleic acid ligand
TLR3 Double-stranded RNA (virus)
TLR7 or 8 U-rich ssRNA
TLR9 CpG DNA (bacteria)
Protein ligand
TLR5 Flagellin (bacteria)
Uropathogenic bacteria
TLR11 Uropathogenic bacteria
Ligand unknown
TLR10 ?