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Microbial products can access immune cells locally or systemically.
Hooper et al. 2012
Ivanov et al. 2022 Annu Rev Immunol 40: 559-587

The majority of genetic material produced by our commensal microbiota encodes putative proteins with currently unknown functions. These are sometimes referred to as genetic dark matter. Some microbial products with interesting and important influences on host biology have been characterized from previously undescribed genes. The high-throughput zebrafish model has proven particularly effective for mining microbial dark matter. It has uncovered the secreted bacterial proteins Amino acid importer A (AimA) a…