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Zebrafish Nk-lysins: First insights about their cellular and functional diversification.
Developmental and comparative immunology - 1 Jul 2015
Pereiro P, Varela M, Diaz-Rosales P, Romero A, Dios S, Figueras A, Novoa B
Abstract excerpt
Nk-lysins are antimicrobial proteins produced by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells with a broad antimicrobial spectrum (including bacteria, fungi and parasites). Nevertheless, the implication of these proteins in the protection against viral infections is still poorly understood. In this work, four different Nk-lysin genes (nkla, nklb, nklc and nkld) were identified in the zebrafish genome. That...
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