Recognition of bacterial surface polysaccharides by lectins of the innate immune system and its contribution to defense against infection: The case of pulmonary pathogens

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1322-1332

  Sahly, Hany ^a,b   Keisari, Yona ^c   Crouch, Erika ^d   Sharon, Nathan ^e   Ofek, Itzhak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Institute of Immunology Clinical Pathology and Molecular Medicine   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; BETA GLUCAN; CD209 ANTIGEN; COLLECTIN; DECTIN 1; FICOLIN; FUCOSE; LECTIN; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; MANNOSE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; O ANTIGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SURFACTANT PROTEIN A; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D;

BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OPSONIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEROTYPE; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LECTINS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 42149195366     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00910-07     Document Type: Short Survey

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