Immunoglobulin A1 protease, an exoenzyme of pathogenic Neisseriae, is a potent inducer of proinflammatory cytokines

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1049-1058

  Lorenzen, Dirk R ^a   Düx, Frank ^a   Wölk, Uwe ^a   Tsirpouchtsidis, Anastasios ^a   Haas, Gaby ^a   Meyer, Thomas F ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Neisseria meningitidis; Tumor necrosis factor ; Virulence factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; PROTEINASE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEISSERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; CYTOKINES; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MONOCYTES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0344466783     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.8.1049     Document Type: Article

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