The Toll gene of Drosophila, required for dorsal-ventral embryonic polarity, appears to encode a transmembrane protein.

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Published in Cell on January 29, 1988

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C Hashimoto1, K L Hudson, K V Anderson

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

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