The lipopolysaccharide-binding protein is a secretory class 1 acute-phase protein whose gene is transcriptionally activated by APRF/STAT-3 and other cytokine-inducible nuclear proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3490-3503

  Schumann, R R ^a   Kirschning, C J ^a   Unbehaun, A ^a   Aberle, H ^b   Knopf, H P ^b   Lamping, N ^a   Ulevitch, R J ^c   Herrmann, F ^d,e  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA; ENDOTOXIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0029952277     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3490     Document Type: Article

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