The Streptococcal Exotoxin Streptolysin O Activates Mast Cells To Produce Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha by p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase- and Protein Kinase C-Dependent Pathways

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6171-6177

  Stassen, Michael ^a   Müller, Christian ^a   Richter, Christoph ^a   Neudörfl, Christine ^a   Hültner, Lothar ^b   Bhakdi, Sucharit ^a   Walev, Iwan ^a   Schmitt, Edgar ^a,c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 (4 METHYLSULFINYLPHENYL) 5 (4 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLE; CHOLESTEROL; EXOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE C; STREPTOLYSIN O; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRULENCE FACTOR; WORTMANNIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; EUKARYOTE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; LD 50; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN KINASE C; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOLYSINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0242349673     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6171-6177.2003     Document Type: Article

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