Cited by 1,765Immune Response and InflammationImmune responses and vaccinationsInvertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms

The history of toll-like receptors - redefining innate immunity

O'Neill, Luke A. J., Golenbock, Douglas, Bowie, Andrew G.·2013·Nature reviews. Immunology

Abstract

The discovery of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) was an important event for immunology research and was recognized as such with the awarding of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Jules Hoffmann and Bruce Beutler, who, together with Ralph Steinman, the third winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize and the person who discovered the dendritic cell, were pioneers in the field of innate immunity. TLRs have a central role in immunity - in this Timeline article, we describe the landmark findings that gave rise to this important field of research.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nri3446

Cites

118 of 118 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Identification of Toll-like receptors by Jules Hoffman and Bruce Beutler elucidated how the mammalian immune system recognizes conserved patterns associated with pathogens or damage.

    “the identification of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) by Jules Hoffman and Bruce Beutler elucidated how the mammalian immune system could recognize highly conserved patterns associated with the presence of pathogens or damage [3]”

    From The dawn of mRNA vaccines: the COVID-19 case (2021) · cites this paper as [3]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

1 of the 119 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
O'Neill, L. A. J., Golenbock, D., & Bowie, A. G.
Affiliations
  • Trinity College Dublin (IE)
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
Corresponding author
  • O'Neill, Luke A. J.
  • Golenbock, Douglas
Venue
Nature reviews. Immunology
Published
2013-05-17
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
453-460
ISSN
  • 1474-1733 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1741
OpenAlex
W1995586746
Cited by
1,765
References
119
Citations by year
2026: 72 · 2025: 98 · 2024: 102 · 2023: 126 · 2022: 145 · 2021: 147 · 2020: 159 · 2019: 150 · 2018: 171 · 2017: 161 · 2016: 156 · 2015: 140 · 2014: 108 · 2013: 27
FWCI
12.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Immunology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Trinity's Access to Research Output (TARA) (Trinity College Dublin) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
Keywords
Toll-like receptors, innate immunity, pattern recognition receptors, innate-adaptive immune crosstalk, history of immunology, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dendritic cells
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Signal Transduction, Cytokines, NF-kappa B, Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein, Models, Immunological, Transcription Factor AP-1, Inflammation Mediators, Protein Isoforms, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases, Interferon Regulatory Factor-3, Interferon Regulatory Factor-7, Toll-Like Receptors

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review