Evaluation of the role of LcrV-toll-like receptor 2-mediated immunomodulation in the virulence of Yersinia pestis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3571-3580

  Pouliot, Kimberly ^a   Pan, Ning ^a   Wang, Shixia ^a   Lu, Shan ^a   Lien, Egil ^a   Goguen, Jon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DIMER; HISTIDINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; NICKEL; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID; PROTEIN LCRV; TETRAMER; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CELL LINE; DIMERIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLAGUE; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 34447263833     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01644-06     Document Type: Article

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