Unique Interplay between Sugar and Lipid in Determining the Antigenic Potency of Bacterial Antigens for NKT Cells

Enrico Girardi; Esther Dawen Yu; Yali Li; Norihito Tarumoto; Bo Pei; Jing Wang; Petr Illarionov; Yuki Kinjo; Mitchell Kronenberg; Dirk M. Zajonc

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001189

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Unique Interplay between Sugar and Lipid in Determining the Antigenic Potency of Bacterial Antigens for NKT Cells

Enrico Girardi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Girardi, Esther Dawen Yu

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Esther Dawen Yu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Enrico Girardi, Esther Dawen Yu

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Yali Li,

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Norihito Tarumoto,

Affiliations Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Infectious Disease and Infection Control, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
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Bo Pei,

Affiliation Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Jing Wang,

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Petr Illarionov,

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Yuki Kinjo,

Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Mitchell Kronenberg,

Affiliation Division of Developmental Immunology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Dirk M. Zajonc

* E-mail: dzajonc@liai.org

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Unique Interplay between Sugar and Lipid in Determining the Antigenic Potency of Bacterial Antigens for NKT Cells

Enrico Girardi,
Esther Dawen Yu,
Yali Li,
Norihito Tarumoto,
Bo Pei,
Jing Wang,
Petr Illarionov,
Yuki Kinjo,
Mitchell Kronenberg,
Dirk M. Zajonc

Published: November 1, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001189

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