Bacteria reduce flagellin synthesis to evade microglia-astrocyte-driven immunity in the brain

Hao Sun1, Xuehua Wan2, Yu Fan2

  • 1TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China; The Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China; Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China; College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.

Cell Reports
|July 6, 2022
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