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Facts about Toll-like receptor 6.
Acts via MYD88 and TRAF6, leading to NF-kappa-B activation, cytokine secretion and the inflammatory response. Recognizes mycoplasmal macrophage-activating lipopeptide-2kD (MALP-2), soluble tuberculosis factor (STF), phenol-soluble modulin (PSM) and B.
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Gene Name: | TLR6 |
Uniprot: | Q9Y2C9 |
Entrez: | 10333 |
Belongs to: |
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Toll-like receptor family |
CD286 antigen; CD286; TLR6; toll-like receptor 6
Mass (kDA):
91.88 kDA
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Location: | 4p14 |
Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (38823680..38857767, complement) |
Detected in monocytes, CD11c+ immature dendritic cells, plasmacytoid pre-dendritic cells and dermal microvessel endothelial cells.
Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein. Membrane raft. Golgi apparatus. Upon complex formation with CD36 and TLR4, internalized through dynamin-dependent endocytosis. Does not reside in lipid rafts before stimulation but accumulates increasingly in the raft upon the presence of the microbial ligand. In response to diacylated lipoproteins, TLR2:TLR6 heterodimers are recruited in lipid rafts, this recruitment determine the intracellular targeting to the Golgi apparatus (PubMed:16880211).
PMID: 10231569 by Takeuchi O., et al. TLR6: a novel member of an expanding Toll-like receptor family.
PMID: 18810425 by Nakajima T., et al. Natural selection in the TLR-related genes in the course of primate evolution.