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NKT-cell adjuvants in conjugate

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Two studies demonstrate that natural killer T-cell adjuvants, covalently attached to either carbohydrate or peptide epitopes, yield effective vaccines.

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Figure 1: Structures of NKT-cell adjuvant-vaccine epitope conjugates.
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Savage, P. NKT-cell adjuvants in conjugate. Nat Chem Biol 10, 882–883 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1667

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