Abstract
The immune response against fungal infections is complex and exhibits several factors involving innate elements that participate in the interaction with the fungus. The innate immune system developed pattern recognition receptors that recognize different pathogen-associated molecular patterns present both on the surface of the fungi cell wall and on their genetic material. These receptors have the function of activating the innate immune response and regulating a subsequent adaptive immune response. Among pattern recognition receptors, the family of Toll-like receptors and C-type lectin receptors are the best described and characterized, they act directly in the recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns expressed on the wall of the fungus and consequently in directing the immune response. In recent years, the role of intracellular pattern recognition receptors (TLR3, TLR7, TLR8, and TLR9) has become increasingly important in the pathophysiology of some mycoses, as paracoccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, and candidiasis. The recognition of nucleic acids performed by these receptors can be essential for the control of some fungal infections, as they can be harmful to others. Therefore, this review focuses on highlighting the role played by intracellular pattern recognition receptors both in controlling the infection and in the host's susceptibility against the main fungi of medical relevance.
Highlights
Fungi are eukaryotic cells with composition predominantly of carbohydrate polymers interspersed with glycoproteins and complex morphogenesis
Intracellular pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in Fungal Infections to be its major fungal cell wall structure and has varying numbers of β-(1,6)-glucans, chitin is an N-acetylglucosamine polymer, and mannans is composed of chains with hundreds of mannose molecules that are added in the fungi proteins via N or O-linkages (Bowman and Free, 2006; Wheeler and Fink, 2006; Romani, 2011)
The absence of TLR9 in bone marrow-derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) it abolished the production of these cytokines when stimulated with DNA from A. fumigatus, proving the role of TLR9 in the effector functions mediated by these cells (Ramirez-Ortiz et al, 2008)
Summary
Fungi are eukaryotic cells with composition predominantly of carbohydrate polymers interspersed with glycoproteins and complex morphogenesis. In murine PCM, the absence of TLR3 generated greater resistance to infection, with decreased pulmonary fungal burden and an increased protective response mediated by IFN-γ and IL-17-producing CD8T cells (Jannuzzi et al, 2019).
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