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Bacterial cell walls, innate immunity and immunoadjuvants

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Jack Strominger recounts his seminal work and contributions to understanding bacterial cell wall components, and thus how penicillin functions, and the implications of these discoveries for immunology.

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Figure 1: Structure of the peptidoglycans of S. aureus and Escherichia coli showing their cleavage by various bacteriolytic enzymes and the location of Nod 1 and Nod 2 ligands that have been identified.

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