Histone-like DNA binding protein of Streptococcus intermedius induces the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in human monocytes via activation of ERK1/2 and JNK pathways

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 262-276

  Liu, Dali ^a   Yumoto, Hiromichi ^a   Hirota, Katsuhiko ^a   Murakami, Keiji ^a   Takahashi, Kanako ^a   Hirao, Kouji ^a   Matsuo, Takashi ^a   Ohkura, Kazuto ^b   Nagamune, Hideaki ^a   Miyake, Yoichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MURAMYL DIPEPTIDE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; THERMOSTABILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLMURAMYL-ALANYL-ISOGLUTAMINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CYTOKINES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEAT; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; TEICHOIC ACIDS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 36949027718     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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