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Abstract
New research indicates that the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum recognizes distinctions between Gram(-) and Gram(+) bacterial prey and responds discriminately to these two groups of bacteria. These findings may lend insight to the origins of microbial pattern recognition in innate immunity.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 23701686 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834