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The Drosophila immune system distinguishes live, and potentially harmful, bacteria from harmless dead bacteria through the use of a splice variant of the receptor PGRP-LC.

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Figure 1: Role of rLC in resolution of the immune response after killing of Gram-negative bacteria.

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  1. Lorena Tomé-Poderti and Maria-Carla Saleh are with the Institut Pasteur, Viruses and RNA Interference Unit, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 3569, Paris, France.,

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Tomé-Poderti, L., Saleh, MC. R.I.P. dead bacteria, you will not be attacked. Nat Immunol 17, 1138–1140 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3562

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