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The cytoskeleton in cell-autonomous immunity: structural determinants of host defence

Serge Mostowy1, Avinash R Shenoy1

  • 1Medical Research Council Centre of Molecular Bacteriology and Infection (CMBI), Imperial College London, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Nature Reviews. Immunology
|August 22, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
Cytoskeletal immunityCell-autonomous defenseInnate immunity mechanismsPathogen detection

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