Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)
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What do innate immune cells use to recognize potential pathogens?
Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs)
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What do PRRs recognize on pathogens?
Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)
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What are PAMPs?
Molecules characteristic of a broad range of microbes that are not normally present in the body.
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Give examples of PAMPs found in bacterial cell walls.
Carbohydrates and lipids.
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What type of nucleic acids can serve as PAMPs?
Viral or bacterial nucleic acids.
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