ASC/PYCARD and caspase-1 regulate the IL-18/IFN-γ axis during Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 179, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4783-4791

  Pedra, Joao H F ^a   Sutterwala, Fayyaz S ^a   Sukumaran, Bindu ^a   Ogura, Yasunori ^a   Qian, Feng ^a   Montgomery, Ruth R ^a   Flavell, Richard A ^a   Fikrig, Erol ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN SIGNALING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMOSIS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-18; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; TH1 CELLS;

EID: 36248968798     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.7.4783     Document Type: Article

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