A sweet target for innate immunity

作者:Liu Fu Tong*; Bevins Charles L
来源:Nature Medicine, 2010, 16(3): 263-264.
DOI:10.1038/nm0310-263

摘要

Galectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins with diverse activities, but there is no unifying picture of their primary physiological role. Galectins now emerge as autonomous bacteria-killing agents (pages 295-301), unexpected findings that may point to a principal role of these proteins in innate immunity.

  • 出版日期2010-3