A small number of Toll-like receptors can detect a broad range of human pathogens, as well as a variety of other molecules that indicate tissue damage, by a process called pattern recognition.

All PGRPs have at least one C-terminal PGRP domain, which is homologous to bacteriophage and bacterial type 2 amidases ... PGRP-SA) are pattern recognition receptors that recognize lysine ...

Cells have built-in detectors called pattern recognition receptors that ... naturally turned to how DNA induces a response as his findings suggested that there was another pathway. In his quest to ...