FcRn媒介の抗体輸送は,電子トモグラフィで明らかになった上皮細胞を横断する

Wanzhong He1, Mark S Ladinsky, Kathryn E Huey-Tubman

  • 1Division of Biology 114-96, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.

Nature
|September 27, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

新生児のFc受容体 (FcRn) は,腸内トランサイトーシス経由で,母親から新生児へのIgG輸送を促進します. この研究では,複雑な膀ネットワークを通してのIgGの動きを視覚化し,この重要な免疫移転プロセスの新しい詳細を明らかにしました.

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