Gut epithelium modulates fungal pathogenesis

Science. 2023 Aug 4;381(6657):483-484. doi: 10.1126/science.adj1240. Epub 2023 Aug 3.

Woan-Yu Lin^{1

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3}, Iliyan D Iliev^{1

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¹ Joan and Sanford I. Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
² The Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
³ Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

Specialized epithelium secretes an antifungal peptide.