Immunopathogenesis in Chlamydia trachomatis Infected Women

Table 1

Presence of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domains (NODs) in the genital tract.

PRRs	PAMPs	Presence in genital tract
		In vivo	In vitro
TLR2	Peptidoglycan	+	+
TLR4	LPS and hsp	+	+
TLR9	Bacterial DNA	NT	+
NOD1	Peptidoglycan	NT	NT
NOD2	Peptidoglycan LPS	NT	NT

Modified from den Hartog et al. 2006 [3].
Legenda: hsp: heat shock protein; LPS: lipopolysaccharide; NT: not tested; PAMPs: pathogen-associated molecular patterns; PRRs: pattern recognition receptors.