In pregnant mice infected with Zika virus, those fetuses with a docking station, or receptor, for immune system proteins called type I interferons either died or grew more poorly compared with fetuses lacking the receptor. (sciencenews.org)
The speaker woefully described his difficulties determining the structure of an immune system protein called calcineurin: Do what he might, one very large region of the protein simply refused to come into focus. (scientificamerican.com)
And with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune - system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint. (discovermagazine.com)