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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2025

Role of TLRs as signaling cascades to combat infectious diseases: a review.

Md Salauddin, Debaraj Bhattacharyya, Indranil Samanta, Sukumar Saha, Mengzhou Xue, Md Golzar Hossain, Chunfu Zheng

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Md SalauddinDepartment of Microbiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences, Khulna Agricultural University, Khulna, 9202, Bangladesh.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8990-3868
Debaraj BhattacharyyaDepartment of Veterinary Biochemistry, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700037, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5623-1399
Indranil SamantaDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, 37, K.B. Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700037, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1189-3994
Sukumar SahaDepartment of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh.
Mengzhou XueDepartment of Cerebrovascular Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, 2 Jingba Road, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, China. xuemengzhou@zzu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4427-7285
Md Golzar HossainDepartment of Microbiology and Hygiene, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh. mghossain@bau.edu.bd.
Chunfu ZhengDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. zheng.alan@hotmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-1322

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigating innate immunity and its signaling transduction is essential to understand inflammation and host defence mechanisms. Toll-like receptors (TLRs), an evolutionarily ancient group of pattern recognition receptors, are crucial for detecting microbial components and initiating immune responses. This review summarizes the mechanisms and outcomes of TLR-mediated signaling, focusing on motifs shared with other immunological pathways, which enhances our understanding of the innate immune system. TLRs recognize molecular patterns in microbial invaders, activate innate immunity and promote antigen-specific adaptive immunity, and each of them triggers unique downstream signaling patterns. Recent advances have highlighted the importance of supramolecular organizing centers (SMOCs) in TLR signaling, ensuring precise cellular responses and pathogen detection. Furthermore, this review illuminates how TLR pathways coordinate metabolism and gene regulation, contributing to adaptive immunity and providing novel insights for next-generation therapeutic strategies. Ongoing studies hold promise for novel treatments against infectious diseases, autoimmune conditions, and cancers.

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Communicable DiseasesSignal TransductionToll-Like ReceptorsAdaptive ImmunityAnimalsHumansImmunity, InnateToll-Like ReceptorsInfectious diseasesInnate immunityIRF3MyD88NF-κBTLRsTRAFTRIF

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PMID40105962
PMCPMC11923325

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