title: Common mechanisms activate plant guard receptors and TLR4.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02446, USA. Electronic address: jonathan.kagan@childrens.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Jonathan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kagan
mesh_terms: D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000276:immunology*; D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D010940:Plant Proteins; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic