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Zebrafish nephrosin helps host defence against Escherichia coli infection.
Open biology - 1 Aug 2017
Di Qianqian, Lin Qing, Huang Zhibin, Chi Yali, Chen Xiaohui, Zhang Wenqing, Zhang Yiyue
Abstract excerpt
Neutrophils play important roles in innate immunity and are mainly dependent on various enzyme-containing granules to kill engulfed microorganisms. Zebrafish nephrosin (npsn) is specifically expressed in neutrophils; however, its function is largely unknown. Here, we generated an npsn mutant (npsnsmu5 ) via CRISPR/Cas9 to investigate the in vivo function of Npsn. The overall development and number of neutrophils...
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