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A conserved structural motif for lipopolysaccharide recognition by procaryotic and eucaryotic proteins

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These four residues, three of which form specific interactions with lipid A, appear to provide the structural basis of pattern recognition in the innate immune response and could serve as a template for molecular modeling of a LPS scavenger designed to reduce the septic shock syndrome.
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This article is published in Structure.The article was published on 2000-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 195 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bacterial outer membrane & Lipid A.

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Molecular Basis of Bacterial Outer Membrane Permeability Revisited

TL;DR: This review summarizes the development in the field since the previous review and begins to understand how this bilayer of the outer membrane can retard the entry of lipophilic compounds, owing to increasing knowledge about the chemistry of lipopolysaccharide from diverse organisms and the way in which lipopoly Saccharide structure is modified by environmental conditions.
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Inflammatory caspases are innate immune receptors for intracellular LPS

TL;DR: It is shown that human monocytes, epithelial cells and keratinocytes undergo necrosis upon cytoplasmic delivery of LPS, which represents a new mode of pattern recognition in immunity and also an unprecedented means of caspase activation.
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Lipid a modification systems in gram-negative bacteria

TL;DR: Diverse covalent modifications of the lipid A moiety may occur during its transit from the outer surface of the inner membrane to the outer membrane of most gram-negative bacteria.
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Bacterial lipopolysaccharides and innate immunity

TL;DR: The elucidation of structure-activity correlations in LPS and lipid A has not only contributed to a molecular understanding of both immunostimulatory and toxic septic processes, but has also re-animated the development of new pharmacological and immunostIMulatory strategies for the prevention and therapy of infectious and malignant diseases.
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Lipid–protein interactions in biological membranes: a structural perspective

TL;DR: Lipid molecules bound to membrane proteins are resolved in some high-resolution structures of membrane proteins, and an analysis of these structures provides a framework within which to analyse the nature of lipid-protein interactions within membranes.
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