References & Sources  -  September 19, 1998

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Looking to moths for immune insights

The insect and human immune systems share a bacteria-binding protein.

 

References:

Kang, D. . . . H. Steiner. 1998. A peptidoglycan recognition protein in innate immunity conserved from insects to humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95(Aug. 18):10078.

Medzhitov, R., P. Preston-Hurlburt, and C.A. Janeway, Jr. 1997. A human homologue of the Drosophila Toll protein signals activation of adaptive immunity. Nature 388(July 24):394.

 

Sources:

Charles A. Janeway, Jr.
Yale University
School of Medicine
Section of Immunobiology
New Haven, CT 06520-8011

Håkan Steiner
Stockholm University
Department of Microbiology
S-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 12, September 19, 1998, p. 189.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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