Bacterial lipopolysaccharides in plant and mammalian innate immunity.

Cristina De Castro, Otto Holst, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Antonio Molinaro

Department of Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia,4 I-80126 Napoli, Italy. decastro@unina.it

Protein and peptide letters 2012 Oct

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This mini-review gives a structural view on the lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), the endotoxin from Gram negative bacteria, paying attention on the features that are relevant for their activity as elicitors of the innate immune system of humans, animals and plants.

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Cristina De Castro, Otto Holst, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Antonio Molinaro. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides in plant and mammalian innate immunity. Protein and peptide letters. 2012 Oct;19(10):1040-4