Seeligeriolysin O, a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin of Listeria seeligeri, induces gamma interferon from spleen cells of mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 234-241

  Ito, Yutaka ^a   Kawamura, Ikuo ^a   Kohda, Chikara ^a   Baba, Hisashi ^b   Nomura, Takamasa ^a   Kimoto, Terumi ^a   Watanabe, Isao ^a   Mitsuyama, Masao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOLYSIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LISTERIOLYSIN; SEELIGERIOLYSIN O; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOLYSIS; FEMALE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA SEELIGERI; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXINS; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INTERFERON TYPE II; LISTERIA; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPLEEN;

EID: 0037220909     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.1.234-241.2003     Document Type: Article

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