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SUBMITTER: Entwistle LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5644720 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Entwistle Lewis J LJ Pelly Victoria S VS Coomes Stephanie M SM Kannan Yashaswini Y Perez-Lloret Jimena J Czieso Stephanie S Silva Dos Santos Mariana M MacRae James I JI Collinson Lucy L Sesay Abdul A Nikolov Nikolay N Metidji Amina A Helmby Helena H Hui David Y DY Wilson Mark S MS
Cell host & microbe 20171001 4
Immunity to intestinal helminth infections has been well studied, but the mechanism of helminth killing prior to expulsion remains unclear. Here we identify epithelial-cell-derived phospholipase A<sub>2</sub> group 1B (PLA<sub>2</sub>g1B) as a host-derived endogenous anthelmintic. PLA<sub>2</sub>g1B is elevated in resistant mice and is responsible for killing tissue-embedded larvae. Despite comparable activities of other essential type-2-dependent immune mechanisms, Pla2g1b<sup>-/-</sup> mice fa ...[more]