Cutting edge: Recognition of Gram-positive bacterial cell wall components by the innate immune system occurs via Toll-like receptor 2

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-5

  Yoshimura, Atsutoshi ^a   Lien, Egil ^a   Ingalls, Robin R ^a   Tuomanen, Elaine ^b   Dziarski, Roman ^c   Golenbock, Douglas ^a,d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NORTHWEST   (United States)

^d Maxwell Finland Lab Infect Dis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CD14 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CELL ACTIVATION; CHO CELL; DEATH; FIBROBLAST; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NF-KAPPA B; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033168728     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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