Ten Papers on NLR Biology Published in 2026
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Eight themes, derived from the concept tags in the ten papers rather than from a preset ontology. 115 raw tags collapsed to 34 canonical concepts, then grouped.

Resistosome architecture and oligomeric state

What activated NLRs build, and how much that varies. Pentamer, hexamer, octamer, undecamer and stalled sub-hexameric intermediates all appear in this corpus, so stoichiometry is a measurement, not a clade property.

4 papers

Sensor-helper communication in NLR networks

How expanded sensor NLRs signal through a small number of helper executors, and what holds the pairing specificity in place.

6 papers

Calcium signalling and where immunity is executed

Resistosomes as ion channels, and the growing evidence that which membrane they act on is itself a functional variable.

4 papers

Effector suppression of NLR function

Pathogen effectors that target the receptors themselves rather than downstream immunity, and the structural basis of how they do it.

2 papers

Effector recognition and its evolution

How receptors acquire and change what they detect, including integrated decoys and the mimicry alternative.

3 papers

Autoinhibition and priming

What keeps a receptor off until it is wanted: resting-state conformation, N-terminal extensions, transcript isoform, and surface-receptor licensing.

7 papers

Evolution of NLR repertoires

How NLR families expand, contract, subfunctionalise and specialise across lineages and tissues.

9 papers

Engineering receptors

Moving interfaces, swapping domains and reprogramming specificity, in every case guided by a structure.

6 papers

Sources

  • data/taxonomy.json
  • Concept reconciliation in data/reconciliation.json