Savill John, Gregory Chris
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK.
Immunity. 2007 Dec;27(6):830-2. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2007.12.002.
Although cells dying by apoptosis expose the classical "eat me" signal phosphatidylserine (PS), a phagocytic transmembrane receptor for PS has proved elusive. Now cell and structural studies (Kobayashi et al. [2007] and Santiago et al. [2007] in this issue of Immunity) implicate the type I molecule TIM-4.
尽管通过凋亡死亡的细胞会暴露经典的“吃我”信号磷脂酰丝氨酸(PS),但PS的吞噬性跨膜受体却一直难以捉摸。现在,细胞和结构研究(本期《免疫》杂志中Kobayashi等人[2007年]以及Santiago等人[2007年]的研究)表明I型分子TIM-4与之有关。