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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Pathol. 2008 Jan;214(2):161–178. doi: 10.1002/path.2284

Table 1.

Membrane-bound innate receptors and their ligands

Receptors and their ligands Locations Adaptors
TLRs and ligands
   TLR1 Tri-acyl lipoprotein Cell surface MyD88/Mal
   TLR2 Gram-positive peptidoglycan and lipoteichoic acid; fungi zymosan;
mycobacteria lipoarabinomannan; Trypanosoma cruzi glycoinositolphospholipids;
Treponema maltophilum glycolipids; Neisseria porins; viral glycoproteins
Cell surface MyD88/Mal
   TLR3 Virus double-stranded RNA; poly I : poly C; poly I [150] Endosomal TRIF
   TLR4 Gram-negative LPS; MMTV envelope proteins; RSV fusion proteins; toxol Cell surface MyD88/Mal/Trif/Tram
   TLR5 Bacteria flagellin Cell surface MyD88
   TLR6 Mycoplasma di-acyl lipopeptides Cell surface MyD88/Mal
   TLR7 Virus single-stranded RNA;
small synthetic compounds—bropirimine, imidazoquinoline; loxoribine
Endosomal MyD88
   TLR8 Virus single-stranded RNA; imidazoquinoline Endosomal MyD88
   TLR9 Bacterial and viral unmethylated CpG DNA; malaria pigment haemozoin Endosomal MyD88
   TLR10 Unknown (human only) Cell surface Unknown
   TLR11 Toxoplasma gondi profilin-like protein [151] Cell surface MyD88
   TLR12 Unknown (mice only) Unknown Unknown
   TLR13 Unknown (mice only) Unknown Unknown
C-type lectin receptors
   MR* Ligands bearing mannose, fucose, or N-acetyl glucosamine Cell surface Cdc42, Rho [152]
   DC-SIGN ICAM2/3; HIVgp120; M. tuberculosis ManLAM Cell surface Unknown
   Dectin-1 Fungus β-glucans; zymosan Cell surface Src; Syk; Tec [153]
Scavenger receptors
   CD36 Apoptotic cells; collagen types I and IV; erythrocyte membrame protein 1;
oxidized LDL; Plasmodium falciparum GPI [154];
platelet-agglutinating protein p37; thrombospondin
Cell surface Lyn; MEKK2 [155]
   MARCO LPS, LTA (lipoteichoic acid); acetylated LDL; uteroglobin-related protein 1 Cell surface Unknown
   SRA* Apoptotic cells; LPS; LTA; oxidized LDL; polyribonucleic acids Cell surface Unknown
Complement receptors
   CR3, CR4 iC3b; β-glucan; fibrinogen Cell surface Cytohesin-1 [156]
   C5aR C5a Cell surface Unknown
   gC1qR C1q Cell surface CD59 [157]