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Abstract
Although cells dying by apoptosis expose the classical "eat me" signal phosphatidylserine (PS), a phagocytic transmembrane receptor for PS has proved elusive. Now cell and structural studies (Kobayashi et al. [2007] and Santiago et al. [2007] in this issue of Immunity) implicate the type I molecule TIM-4.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18093535 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.12.002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunity ISSN: 1074-7613 Impact factor: 31.745