Antibodies Shape the Human Gut Microbiome (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Antibodies Shape the Human Gut Microbiome (1 of 1)

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A diagram showing the impact of secretory IgA antibody binding on commensal bacteria. Healthy subjects (right) bind to a balanced variety of bacterial species with IgA and IgM, while IgA-deficient patients (left) bind to fewer species with only IgM. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 2 May, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Fadlallah at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France; and colleagues was titled, "Microbial ecology perturbation in human IgA deficiency."

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J. Fadlallah <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2018)

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