NLR-protein functions in immunity

• Autor principal: Jorg H. Fritz (auth)
• Outros Autores: Thomas A. Kufer (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Medicine; Adaptive Immunity; PAMP; pathogens; MAMP; innate immunity; Bacteria; Sensing; virus; LRR; DAMP
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Nod-like receptor (NLR) family of proteins are evolutionary conserved molecules that in plants and mammals have been implicated in innate immune sensing of microbes and infection-associated physiological changes, contributing to immune protection of the challenged host organism through the instr...