Christine McDonald and Gabriel Nuñez are in the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. bclx@umich.edu
The immune system uses many sensors to detect and report microbial invaders. Most of these sensors are associated with immune cells, but the extracellular matrix also seems to be essential for this sentinel duty.
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