Trypanosoma brucei Co-opts NK Cells to Kill Splenic B2 B Cells

Deborah Frenkel; Fengqiu Zhang; Patrick Guirnalda; Carole Haynes; Viki Bockstal; Magdalena Radwanska; Stefan Magez; Samuel J. Black

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005733

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Trypanosoma brucei Co-opts NK Cells to Kill Splenic B2 B Cells

Deborah Frenkel,

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Fengqiu Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8968-3802

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Patrick Guirnalda,

Current Address: SANOFI, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Carole Haynes,

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Viki Bockstal,

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Magdalena Radwanska,

Affiliation Ghent University Global Campus, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, South Korea

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-6001

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Stefan Magez,

Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America, Laboratory for Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Samuel J. Black

* E-mail: sblack@vasci.umass.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Trypanosoma brucei Co-opts NK Cells to Kill Splenic B2 B Cells

Deborah Frenkel,
Fengqiu Zhang,
Patrick Guirnalda,
Carole Haynes,
Viki Bockstal,
Magdalena Radwanska,
Stefan Magez,
Samuel J. Black

Published: July 12, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005733

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