15 August 2023
Essential for Life
Cytoskeleton protein ARPC5 is important for prenatal development and for function of the immune system after birth – inheritance of a faulty ARPC5L gene causes early-onset immunodeficiency
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- Image from work by Elena Sindram, Andrés Caballero-Oteyza and Naoko Kogata, and colleagues
- Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg Germany and Cellular Signalling and Cytoskeletal Function Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, July 2023
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