Isolation and characterization of baker's yeast capable of strongly activating a macrophage.

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A physiological function of the β-glucans which constitute the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is to activate immune cells. Here, we focused on the immunostimulation ability of S. cerevisiae itself to give this ability to fermented foods including yeast. Previously, we found that in S. cerevisiae the deletion of MCD4 gene causes exposure of β-glucans on the cell surface and that the mcd4 deletion mutant...

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