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PDZ domains and the politics of polarity in lymphocytes
1Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
Immunity
|June 21, 2005
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In this issue of Immunity, Ludford-Menting at al. (2005) show that scaffold proteins previously implicated in the control of epithelial cell polarity also play an important role in determining the macroscopic organization of the engaged T cell.
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