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Caitlin N Spaulding1, Karen W Dodson1, Matthew R Chapman2, Scott J Hultgren3.
Abstract
Bacterial infection is associated with increased morbidity in patients with systematic lupus erythematosus. In a recent Immunity paper, Gallo et al. (2015) report that extracellular DNA is bound tightly by bacterial amyloid fibrils during biofilm formation and that amyloid/DNA composites are immune stimulators when injected into mice, leading to autoimmunity.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26159711 PMCID: PMC5290729 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.06.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Host Microbe ISSN: 1931-3128 Impact factor: 21.023