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Nature Immunology 7, 797 - 798 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ni0806-797

Recognition reversal in a spineless scrounger

Neil S Greenspan1 & Harry W Schroeder Jr2

1  Neil S. Greenspan is in the Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

2  Harry W. Schroeder, Jr., is with the Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA. neil.greenspan@case.edu

The recently deduced structures of amphioxus immune-like receptors provide new insights on what is actually required for antigen recognition by antigen receptors.

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