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Engineering better cytokines

Nature Biotechnology volume 21, pages 1293–1294 (2003)Cite this article

Designing enzymes with protective shells that are cleaved once they arrive at inflammatory sites can be used to enhance immune therapy.

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Figure 1: A protecting shell, often called a latency peptide, is spliced onto a gene encoding a cytokine.

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