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Silent flagellin delivers insights into how gut bacteria evade the immune system
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have identified a new type of flagellin in the human gut, termed ‘silent flagellin’, that binds to the immune receptor Toll-like receptor 5 without inducing a pro-inflammatory response. Their work addresses the long-standing question of how benign gut microbes evade the ...