Volume 23, No 7, Jul 2013

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 23 Issue 7, July 2013: 965-968

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Biofilm from a clinical strain of Cryptococcus neoformans activates the NLRP3 inflammasome

Guowei Lei^1,2,*, Mingkuan Chen^1,*, Hua Li^1,2,*, Jun-Ling Niu³, Shuxian Wu¹, Liming Mao¹, Ailing Lu¹, Hongbin Wang¹, Wei Chen¹, Bin Xu⁴, Qibin Leng¹, Cunshuan Xu³, Guiwen Yang², Liguo An², Li-Ping Zhu⁴ and Guangxun Meng¹

¹Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200025, China
²College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China
³College of Life Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan 453007, China
⁴Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China Correspondence: Guangxun Meng, Tel/Fax: +86 21 54652203 E-mail: gxmeng@sibs.ac.cn; Li-ping Zhu, Tel/Fax: +86 21 52887966(zhulp@fudan.edu.cn)

10.1038/cr.2013.49

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