The antimicrobial activity of C-reactive protein

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 201-205

  Szalai, Alexander J ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute phase reactants; Infectious immunity bacteria; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM ION; LECTIN; OPSONIN; PROTEIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL WALL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036188432     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01528-3     Document Type: Review

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