Nature Medicine
- 12, 730 - 732 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0706-730
Cracking the fungal armorTobias M Hohl & Eric G Pamer
The authors are in the Infectious Diseases Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021, USA. pamere@mskcc.org
kanjiFungal cell-wall polymers are potent stimulators of immune responses. New findings reveal that fungi shield inflammatory cell-wall polysaccharides from immune recognition, a process that is disrupted by an antifungal compound.
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