I always thought that toll like receptors owe their name to the toll function of the immune system. As I learned only today, the origin is with the German “toll” (amazing, phantastic) ascribed by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard to a Drosophila protein.
I always thought that toll like receptors owe their name to the toll function of the immune system. As I learned only today, the origin is with the German “toll” (amazing, phantastic) ascribed by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard to a Drosophila protein.