A critical cysteine is required for HMGB1 binding to Toll-like receptor 4 and activation of macrophage cytokine release
Huan Yang, Hulda S. Hreggvidsdottir, Karin Palmblad, Haichao Wang, Mahendar Ochani, Jianhua Li, Ben Lü, Sangeeta S. Chavan, Mauricio Rosas‐Ballina, Yousef Al‐Abed, Akira Shizuo, Angelika Bierhaus, Helena Erlandsson-Harris, Jan Andersson, Kevin J. Tracey (2010). A critical cysteine is required for HMGB1 binding to Toll-like receptor 4 and activation of macrophage cytokine release. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(26), pp. 11942-11947, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003893107.