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The cell identity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes

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Understanding cytotoxic T cells has been a major focus of immunology research for decades. Proteomic profiling of these cells now brings them into unprecedented and revealing focus.

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Figure 1: Cell identity of CTLs.

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  1. David E. Sanin and Edward J. Pearce are in the Department of Immunometabolism, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.,

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Sanin, D., Pearce, E. The cell identity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Nat Immunol 17, 45–46 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3350

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