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. 2020 Nov 24;45(3):fuaa060. doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuaa060

Table 1.

Pattern recognition receptors in epithelial and innate immune cells that recognise C. albicans pathogen-associated molecular patterns.

PRR family PRR Fungal PAMP Expressed in Reference
TLRs TLR2 Phospholipomannans Neutrophils, macrophages, DCs, Epithelial cells (oral, vaginal, intestinal) (Kurt-Jones et al. 2002; Jouault et al. 2003; Fazeli, Bruce and Anumba 2005; Décanis, Savignac and Rouabhia 2009; McClure and Massari 2014)
TLR4 O-linked mannans Neutrophils, monocyte, macrophages, DCs, epithelial cells (oral, vaginal, intestinal) (Netea et al. 2006; Hyung Sook Kim et al. 2016; Fazeli, Bruce and Anumba 2005; Weindl et al. 2007; McClure and Massari 2014)
TLR9 Fungal DNA Chitin DCs, Neutrophils, macrophages, epithelial cells (oral, vaginal, intestinal) (Miyazato et al. 2009; Kasperkovitz et al. 2011; McClure and Massari 2014; Wagener et al. 2014)
CLRs Dectin-1 β-glucans Macrophages, monocytes, neutrophils, DCs, epithelial cells (oral, intestinal) (Brown and Gordon 2001; Brown et al. 2002; Taylor et al. 2002; Ariizumi, Shen, Shikano, Xu et al. 2000; Cohen-Kedar et al. 2014)
Dectin-2 Mannoproteins (a-mannans) Macrophages, DCs (Taylor et al. 2005; Ariizumi, Shen, Shikano, Ritter, et al. 2000)
Dectin-3 Mannoproteins (a-mannans) Macrophages, (Zhu et al. 2013)
DC SIGN Mannoproteins Macrophages, DCs (Cambi et al. 2003; Rappocciolo et al. 2006)
Mincle Mannoproteins Neutrophils, macrophages, DCs (Wells et al. 2008; Vijayan et al. 2012; Martínez-López et al. 2019)
MR Mannoproteins Chitin DCs, macrophages (van de Veerdonk et al. 2009; Martinez-Pomares 2012; Wagener et al. 2014)
NA EphA2 β-glucans Oral epithelial cells, neutrophils (Swidergall, Solis, et al. 2019)
Galectin-3 β-mannosides Monocytes, macrophages, DCs, neutrophils, epithelial cells (Jouault et al. 2006)
RLRs MDA5 Unknown Monocytes, DCs, macrophages, epithelial cells (Plato, Hardison and Brown 2015)
NLRs NOD2 Chitin Monocytes, DCs, macrophages (Wagener et al. 2014)