Bacterial cell walls, innate immunity and immunoadjuvants

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1269-1271

  Strominger, Jack L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BETA INTERFERON; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MURABUTIDE; MURAMYL TRIPEPTIDE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; PENICILLIN G; PEPTIDOGLYCAN POLYSACCHARIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CROSS LINKING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOMYCES ALBUS; SUPERNATANT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; BACTERIA; CELL WALL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

EID: 36248970136     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1207-1269     Document Type: Article

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