Protease-proteoglycan complexes of mouse and human mast cells and importance of their β-tryptase-heparin complexes in inflammation and innate immunity

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-167

  Stevens, Richard L ^a,b   Adachi, Roberto ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mast cells; Mouse mast cell proteases; Serglycin; Tryptase

Indexed keywords

BETA TRYPTASE HEPARIN COMPLEX; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; CATHEPSIN; GRANZYME B; NEUROPSIN; PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPTASE SERGLYCIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

B LYMPHOCYTE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAST CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECRETORY GRANULE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UROCHORDATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHONDROITIN SULFATES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFLAMMATION; MAST CELLS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEOGLYCANS; TRYPTASES;

EID: 34248183479     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2007.00525.x     Document Type: Review

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