Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota

Keisuke Nakashima , Satoshi Kimura , Yu Ogawa (1) , Soichi Watanabe , Satoshi Soma , Toyoji Kaneko , Lixy Yamada , Hitoshi Sawada (2) , Che-Huang Tung , Tsai-Ming Lu , Jr-Kai Yu (3) , Alejandro Villar-Briones , Sakura Kikuchi , Noriyuki Satoh (4)

1 CERMAV - Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales
2 NAGOYA - Nagoya
3 Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology
4 Marine Genomics Unit

Domaines: Immunologie; Evolution [q-bio.PE]; Polymères

Keisuke Nakashima, Satoshi Kimura, Yu Ogawa, Soichi Watanabe, Satoshi Soma, et al.. Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota. Nature Communications, 2018, 9 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-018-05884-0⟩. ⟨hal-02360609⟩