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. 2012 Nov 13:1:e00302.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.00302.

Histones join the fight against bacteria inside cells

Roberto Kolter  1
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Histones join the fight against bacteria inside cells

Roberto Kolter. Elife. .

Abstract

Experiments on Drosophila have shown that the histones that are normally bound to lipid droplets inside cells can be released to provide protection against infection.

Keywords: B. subtilis; D. melanogaster; E. coli; Mouse; anti-bacterial; histones; innate immunity; lipid droplet.

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Competing interests:The author declares that no competing interests exist

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
An early Drosophila embryo visualized using fluorescence microscopy. Nuclei have been false coloured blue and lipid droplets yellow. This embryo, which is ∼0.5 mm in length, is still a single cell containing many nuclei (a syncytium), and most of these are found on the surface. The detail on the right is an expanded head-on view of the surface inside the white rectangle and shows about 32 densely packed nuclei inside an area of about 25 × 25 µm.
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