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The innate immune pathway is an ancient form of defense against microbial infection, shared by plants, insects and vertebrates. A common and cross-species conserved protein domain in this pathway is the TIR domain, which is thought to play its role by homotypic interactions. We …

Lectins are known to bind to the intestinal brush border membrane and induce antinutritional effects such as disruption of the brush border membrane and reduced nutrient digestibility. Thus, three phases of experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of soybean lectin …