A knockout mouse which is unresponsive to peptidoglycan, a
lipoprotein/lipopeptide and the like, and is useful for elucidating the
contribution of individual members of the TLR family to a signaling
stimulated with bacterial cell components in vivo, in particular, the
role of TLR2 and MyD88 in vivo. A bacterial cell component-unresponsive
knockout mouse is generated by a process comprising the steps of: a
targeting vector is constructed by replacing a whole or a part of a gene
fragment of an exon region containing a cytoplasmic region of TLR2 or
MyD88 gene and the like with a plasmid having a poly A signal and a
marker gene; the targeting vector is introduced into an embryonic stem
cell; the targeting embryonic stem cell having a homologously recombined
TLR2 or MyD88 gene is microinjected into the blastocyst of a mouse and
the blastocyst is put back into the uterus of a recipient mouse.