NOD1 ligand confirmed

NOD1 recognizes a bacterial peptidoglycan containing diaminopimelic acid

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Recent evidence suggests that the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain protein 1 (NOD1) has an important role in bacterial recognition and may function as a specific host pattern recognition receptor (PRR) in intracellular compartments. In the June 8 advanced online publication of Nature Immunology, Mathias Chamaillard and colleagues at the University of Michigan Medical School, confirm NOD1 as essential in host recognition of bacterial peptidoglycan containing diaminopimelic acid (Nature Immunology, DOI:10.1038/ni945, June 8, 2003).

Chamaillard et al. performed biochemical and functional analyses using highly purified and synthetic bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (PGN) compounds. They observed that the core structure recognized by NOD1 is a dipeptide, γ-D-glutamyl-meso-diaminopimelic acid (iE-DAP)—known to exist only in limited number of bacteria (Escherichia coli and several gram-positive bacteria, such as Bacillus subtilis and Listeria monocytogenes). In addition, they showed that murine macrophages deficient in NOD1 did not secrete cytokines in response to synthetic iE-DAP and did not prime ...

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