Common mechanisms activate plant guard receptors and TLR4

• Jonathan C. Kagan ^[1]
  1. [1] Harvard Medical School

     Harvard Medical School

     City of Boston, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Trends in immunology, ISSN 1471-4906, Vol. 35, Nº. 10, 2014, págs. 454-456
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In metazoans, the innate immune system uses Pattern Recognition Receptors to detect conserved microbial products, whereas in plants Guard Receptors detect virulence factors or activities encoded by pathogens. In a recent study, Williams and colleagues report that plant Guard receptors can be activated by a mechanism remarkably similar to that of mammalian Toll-like Receptor 4