Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Structural basis for recognition of N-formyl peptides as pathogen-associated molecular patterns

  • Geng Chen,
  • Xiankun Wang,
  • Qiwen Liao,
  • Yunjun Ge,
  • Haizhan Jiao,
  • Qiang Chen,
  • Yezhou Liu,
  • Wenping Lyu,
  • Lizhe Zhu,
  • Gydo C. P. van Zundert,
  • Michael J. Robertson,
  • Georgios Skiniotis,
  • Yang Du,
  • Hongli Hu,
  • Richard D. Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32822-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Detection of invading bacteria is key to immunity. Here, the authors report cryo-electron microscopy structures of agonist-bound formyl peptide receptor 1 (FPR1), that reveal structural basis for recognition of bacteria-derived formyl peptides.