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Genetic susceptibility to intracellular infections: Nramp1, macrophage function and divalent cations transport.
Current opinion in microbiology - 1 Feb 2000
Gruenheid S, Gros P
Abstract excerpt
Nramp1 is one of the few host resistance genes that have been characterized at the molecular level. Nramp1 is an integral membrane protein expressed in the lysosomal compartment of macrophages and is recruited to the membrane of bacterial phagosomes where it affects intracellular microbial replication. Nramp1 is part of a very large gene family conserved from bacteria and man that codes for transporters of...
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