Staphylococcus aureus infection triggers production of neutralizing, V8 protease-specific antibodies

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-272

  Calander, Ann Marie ^a   Dubin, Grzegorz ^b   Potempa, Jan ^b,c   Tarkowski, Andrej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen driven response; Extracellular proteases; Polyclonal B cell response; SSPA; Staphylococcal proteases; V8

Indexed keywords

AUREOLYSIN; EXOPEPTIDASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; PROTEINASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS TOXIN; SUPERANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; V8 PROTEASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VITRO STUDY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 39049101576     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: 1574695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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