Activation of human meningeal cells is modulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and non-LPS components of Neisseria meningitidis and is independent of Toll-like receptor (TLR)4 and TLR2 signalling

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 415-430

  Humphries, Holly E ^a   Triantafilou, Martha ^b   Makepeace, Benjamin L ^a,c   Heckels, John E ^a   Triantafilou, Kathy ^b   Christodoulides, Myron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 5; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MD 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MENINX; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; OUTER MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANTIGENS, CD14; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOKINES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 96; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MENINGIOMA; MUTATION; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CXCR4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 14044272143     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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