image: 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." view more
Credit: J. Fadlallah <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2018)