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An inside job for antibodies: tagging pathogens for intracellular sensing

Antibodies bound to pathogens that invade cells are sensed in the cytosol by the receptor TRIM21, which triggers innate signaling that leads to protective immunity.

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Figure 1: Intracellular sensing of antibody-coated pathogens by TRIM21.

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Geijtenbeek, T., Gringhuis, S. An inside job for antibodies: tagging pathogens for intracellular sensing. Nat Immunol 14, 309–311 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2574

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