Impairment of dendritic cells and adaptive immunity by anthrax lethal toxin

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6946, 2003, Pages 329-334

  Agrawal, Anshu ^a   Lingappa, Jai ^b   Leppla, Stephen H ^c   Agrawal, Sudhanshu ^a   Jabbar, Abdul ^a   Quinn, Conrad ^b   Pulendran, Bali ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; IMMUNOLOGY; NITROGEN; PATHOLOGY;

DENDRITIC CELLS;

CELLS;

ANTHRAX TOXIN; CASPASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; VIRULENCE FACTOR; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CYTOKINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OVALBUMIN;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; TERRORISM;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHRAX; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DENDRITIC CELL; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; TERRORISM; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPLEEN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; APOPTOSIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OVALBUMIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPLEEN;

EID: 0042964832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01794     Document Type: Article

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