Extracellular enzymes with immunomodulating activities: Variations on a theme in Streptococcus pyogenes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2983-2992

  Collin, Mattias ^a   Olsén, Arne ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELLULITIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; ERYSIPELAS; FASCIA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMPETIGO; KIDNEY FAILURE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEPSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0038782015     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.6.2983-2992.2003     Document Type: Short Survey

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