Pathogen recognition receptors

Pathogen-Associated Molecular Patterns and Pattern Recognition Receptors... 

Reiling, N., et al., Cutting edge Toll-like receptor (TLR)2- and TLR4-mediated pathogen recognition in resistance to airborne infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis,. /. Immunol. 169, 7, 3480, 2002. 

Phagocytosis and encapsulation, in which pathogens are sequestered within several layers of cells, are the predominant cellular immune responses. Genetic and molecular studies have shown that bacterial products are recognized24 and transduced by host cells25 26 by similar pattern recognition receptors and signal transduction pathways in both vertebrates and invertebrates. 

Until recently, most of the attention regarding allograft rejection focused on T cells and acquired immune response. Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which sense conserved pathogen-derived molecules that differentiate infectious nonself from self... 

Pattern recognition receptors recognize features common to many pathogens have important role in activation of the innate and adaptive immune responses. 

Pattern recognition receptors. These are proteins expressed by cells of the immune system that identify molecules associated with microbial pathogens or cellular stress. They include the so-called Toll-like receptors. 

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