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Microbial killing: oxidants, proteases and ions
Rene E Harrison1, Nicolas Touret, Sergio Grinstein
1Cell Biology Programme, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 555 University Avenue, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Toronto, Canada.
Current Biology : CB
|May 17, 2002
Abstract:
There is accumulating evidence that two aspects of the innate immune response, the respiratory burst and secretion of proteases, are intimately intertwined. A recent study suggests that K(+) may be the missing link. Is it time to merge signal transduction with biophysics?