Streptococcus pneumoniae evades complement attack and opsonophagocytosis by expressing the pspC locus-encoded Hic protein that binds to short consensus repeats 8-11 of factor H

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1886-1894

  Jarva, Hanna ^a   Janulczyk, Robert ^a   Hellwage, Jens ^a   Zipfel, Peter F ^a   Björck, Lars ^a   Meri, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; HIC PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BINDING SITE; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIGAND BINDING; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; OPSONOPHAGOCYTOSIS; PERITONITIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037083508     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.4.1886     Document Type: Article

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