Understanding the multiple functions of Nramp1

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-321

  Blackwell, Jenefer M ^a   Searle, Susan ^a   Goswami, Tapasree ^a   Miller, E Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Divalent cation transport; Infectious disease; Macrophage activation; Nramp family

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; DIVALENT CATION; HYDROXYL RADICAL; METAL ION; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CATION TRANSPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; ION TRANSPORT; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METALS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0034107020     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(00)00295-1     Document Type: Review

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