NLR activation takes a direct route

TP Monie - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2013 - cell.com
For the first time there is now clear biochemical and biophysical evidence indicating that
members of the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat containing (NLR) family …

NLRC5: a NOD-like receptor protein with many faces in immune regulation

Y Zhao, F Shao - Cell Research, 2012 - nature.com
Intracellular NOD-like receptor (NLR) proteins are believed to play important roles in innate
immune detection or immune regulation, but only a few NLR proteins are functionally …

Activation and regulation mechanisms of NOD-like receptors based on structural biology

U Ohto - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Innate immunity is a primary defense system against microbial infections. Innate immune
pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) play pivotal roles in detection of invading pathogens …

Post-transcriptional inhibition of luciferase reporter assays by the Nod-like receptor proteins NLRX1 and NLRC3

A Ling, F Soares, DO Croitoru, I Tattoli… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
Luciferase reporter assays (LRAs) are widely used to assess the activity of specific signal
transduction pathways. Although powerful, rapid and convenient, this technique can also …

[HTML][HTML] Ribosome-rescuer PELO catalyzes the oligomeric assembly of NOD-like receptor family proteins via activating their ATPase enzymatic activity

X Wu, ZH Yang, J Wu, J Han - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
NOD-like receptors (NLRs) are pattern recognition receptors for diverse innate immune
responses. Self-oligomerization after engagement with a ligand is a generally accepted …

The regulatory role of NLRX1 in innate immunity and human disease

M Liu, K Liu, D Cheng, B Zheng, S Li, Z Mo - Cytokine, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleotide binding and oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor (NLR) initially appeared
in the public view as a cytoplasmic pathogen recognition receptor (PRR) that plays an …

Evaluation of Nod-like receptor (NLR) effector domain interactions

RN Wagner, M Proell, TA Kufer, R Schwarzenbacher - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Members of the Nod-like receptor (NLR) family recognize intracellular pathogens and recruit
a variety of effector molecules, including pro-caspases and kinases, which in turn are …

NLR in eXile: Emerging roles of NLRX1 in immunity and human disease

RJ Pickering, LM Booty - Immunology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
NLRX1 is a member of the NOD‐like receptor family, a set of pattern recognition receptors
associated with innate immunity. Interestingly, NLRX1 exists in somewhat of an exile from its …

NLR functions beyond pathogen recognition

TA Kufer, PJ Sansonetti - Nature immunology, 2011 - nature.com
The last 10 years have witnessed the identification of a new class of intracellular pattern-
recognition molecules—the nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat–containing …

The biophysical characterisation and SAXS analysis of human NLRP1 uncover a new level of complexity of NLR proteins

L Martino, L Holland, E Christodoulou, S Kunzelmann… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
NOD-like receptors represent an important class of germline-encoded pattern recognition
receptors that play key roles in the regulation of inflammatory signalling pathways. They …