Our immune system's ability to fight viruses inside our cells relies on viral protein fragments being displayed on the cell surface. The enzyme needed for the last step in this presentation process has now been discovered.
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Rammensee, HG. Survival of the fitters. Nature 419, 443–445 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/419443a
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