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ReviewTrends in immunology2025

Evolutionarily ancient functions of enzymatic TIR proteins in innate immunity.

Khursheed A Wani, Read Pukkila-Worley

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Review in Trends in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Khursheed A WaniDivision of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. Electronic address: Khursheed.Wani@umassmed.edu.
Read Pukkila-WorleyDivision of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. Electronic address: Read.Pukkila-Worley@umassmed.edu.

Funding

An Immune Surveillance Network in C. elegansR01AI130289 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI PUKKILA-WORLEY, READ · 2017 to 2025
$4.6M
Sensing bacterial patterns of pathogenesis by an enzymatic TIR proteinR01AI159159 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI Read Pukkila-Worley · 2021 to 2026
$3.7M
Neuroendocrine regulation of intestinal epithelial immunity in C. elegansR21AI163430 · NIAID · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI PUKKILA-WORLEY, READ · 2021 to 2022
$461k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI130289NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI159159NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI163430
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins with a Toll/interleukin-1 receptor/resistance (TIR) domain are among the most ancient immune regulators and include well-known pattern recognition receptors (PRRs). A specialized subset of TIR domain proteins are enzymes that predominantly use nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateReceptors, Interleukin-1AnimalsBacteriaEvolution, MolecularHumansPlantsReceptors, Pattern RecognitionReceptors, Interleukin-1Receptors, Pattern Recognitioneffector-triggered immunityenzymatic TIR proteinsinnate immunityNAD+SARM1

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PMID40393889
PMCPMC13059133

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