Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs)
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Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs).
The innate immune system constitutes the first line of defense against microorganisms in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Although much progress has been made toward identifying key receptors and understanding their role in host defense, far less is known about how these receptors recognize microbial ligands. Such studies have been severely hampered by the need to purify ligands from microbi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507656103