Apoptotic PS to phagocyte TIM-4: Eat me

作者：Savill John^*; Gregory Chris

来源：Immunity, 2007, 27(6): 830-832.

DOI：10.1016/j.immuni.2007.12.002

Although cells dying by apoptosis expose the classical "eat me" signal phosphatidylserine (PS), a phagocytic transmembrane receptor for PS has proved elusive. Now cell and structural studies (Kobayashi et al. [2007] and Santiago et al. [2007] in this issue of Immunity) implicate the type I molecule TIM-4.

• 出版日期2007-12