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2016.03.31
Lypd8 promotes the segregation of flagellated microbiota and colonic epithelia (TAKEDA group, in Nature)
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Kiyoshi Takeda's group (Mucosal Immunology) revealed a mechanism to suppress intestinal inflammation, in which the protein, Lypd8, expressed in epithelial cells on the intestinal gland, inhibits the invasion of flagellate bacterium.
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Kiyoshi TAKEDAMucosal Immunology
Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI-IFReC), Osaka University