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NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages 465-479Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrd2783
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Portugal)
- Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP81360]
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
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Nucleotide-binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptors (NLRs) are a family of intracellular sensors that have key roles in innate immunity and inflammation. Whereas some NLRs - including NOD1, NOD2, NAIP (NLR family, apoptosis inhibitory protein) and NLRC4 - detect conserved bacterial molecular signatures within the host cytosol, other members of this family sense 'danger signals', that is, xenocompounds or molecules that when recognized alert the immune system of hazardous environments, perhaps independently of a microbial trigger. In the past few years, remarkable progress has been made towards deciphering the role and the biology of NLRs, which has shown that these innate immune sensors have pivotal roles in providing immunity to infection, adjuvanticity and inflammation. Furthermore, several inflammatory disorders have been associated with mutations in human NLR genes. Here, we discuss the effect that research on NLRs will have on vaccination, treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders and acute bacterial infections.
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