Peptide gets in shape for self-defence

Robert I. Lehrer
Additional contact information
Robert I. Lehrer: David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90045, USA. rlehrer@mednet.ucla.edu

Nature, 2011, vol. 469, issue 7330, 309-310

Abstract: The transformation of tadpole to frog and of caterpillar to butterfly are two of the more obvious examples of metamorphosis. But molecular shape-shifting may occur in each of us as part of our innate antibacterial defence system. See Letter p.419

Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/469309a Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:469:y:2011:i:7330:d:10.1038_469309a

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/469309a

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().