Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipoprotein LprG (Rv1411c) binds triacylated glycolipid agonists of Toll-like receptor 2.
Drage, M.G., Tsai, H.C., Pecora, N.D., Cheng, T.Y., Arida, A.R., Shukla, S., Rojas, R.E., Seshadri, C., Moody, D.B., Boom, W.H., Sacchettini, J.C., Harding, C.V.(2010) Nat Struct Mol Biol 17: 1088-1095
- PubMed: 20694006 
- DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1869
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3MH8, 3MH9, 3MHA - PubMed Abstract: 
Knockout of lprG results in decreased virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in mice. MTB lipoprotein LprG has TLR2 agonist activity, which is thought to be dependent on its N-terminal triacylation. Unexpectedly, here we find that nonacylated LprG retains TLR2 activity ...