Human tear lipocalin exhibits antimicrobial activity by scavenging microbial siderophores

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3367-3372

  Fluckinger, Maria ^a   Haas, Hubertus ^a   Merschak, Petra ^a   Glasgow, Ben J ^b   Redl, Bernhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFEROXAMINE; ENTEROCHELIN; GELATINASE; HYDROXAMIC ACID; LIPOCALIN; SIDEROPHORE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LACRIMAL FLUID; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCAVENGING SYSTEM;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIDEROPHORES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TEARS;

EID: 4344596798     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.9.3367-3372.2004     Document Type: Article

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