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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: For Immunopathol Dis Therap. 2016;7(1-2):41–55. doi: 10.1615/ForumImmunDisTher.2016017095

FIG. 3.

FIG. 3

Interaction of NK cells with gut bacteria and probiotics. It is hypothesized that iNK cells may infiltrate the intestinal epithelium and interact with the nonmethylated CpG motif in bacterial DNA via its own TLR-9 and increasing its own cytolytic activity during this interaction.