Serum amyloid A is a retinol binding protein that transports retinol during bacterial infection

Retinol plays a vital role in the immune response to infection, yet proteins that mediate retinol transport during infection have not been identified. Serum amyloid A (SAA) proteins are strongly induced in the liver by systemic infection and in the intestine by bacterial colonization, but their exac...

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Autores principales: Derebe, Mehabaw G, Zlatkov, Clare M, Gattu, Sureka, Ruhn, Kelly A, Vaishnava, Shipra, Diehl, Gretchen E, MacMillan, John B, Williams, Noelle S, Hooper, Lora V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014
Materias:
Biophysics and Structural Biology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4129439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25073702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03206

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