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Nature Immunology 8, 1269 - 1271 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ni1207-1269

Bacterial cell walls, innate immunity and immunoadjuvants

Jack L Strominger1

  1. Jack L. Strominger is in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, 7 Divinity Avenue, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
    e-mail: jlstrom@fas.harvard.edu

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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