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. 2016 Aug 10;20(2):125-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.07.013.

When Mr. Fap Meets the Gals

Santosh K Ghosh  1 , Aaron Weinberg  2
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When Mr. Fap Meets the Gals

Santosh K Ghosh et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Abstract

Fusobacteria are found to be overrepresented in the colorectal tumor microenvironment. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Abed et al. (2016) describe a novel homing mechanism by which fusobacteria localize to tumors by recognizing a host polysaccharide (Gal-GalNAc) on cancer cells using a fusobacterial lectin, Fap2.

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