Coordinate activation of activator protein I and inflammatory cytokines in response to Neisseria gonorrhoeae epithelial cell contact involves stress response kinases

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1277-1286

  Naumann, Michael ^a   Rudel, Thomas ^a   Wieland, Björn ^a   Bartsch, Cornelia ^a   Meyer, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activator protein 1; c Jun NH2 terminal kinase; Inflammation; Neisseria; p21 activated kinase

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P21; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032487573     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.188.7.1277     Document Type: Article

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