Neutrophil elastase targets virulence factors of enterobacteria

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6884, 2002, Pages 91-94

  Weinrauch, Yvette ^a   Drujan, Doreen ^a   Shapiro, Steven D ^b   Weiss, Jerrold ^c   Zychlinsky, Arturo ^a,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; PATHOLOGY; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA;

ELASTASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; DYSENTERY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; YERSINIA;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HUMANS; NEUTROPHILS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0037007656     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/417091a     Document Type: Article

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