Allergenicity resulting from functional mimicry of a Toll-like receptor complex protein

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7229, 2009, Pages 585-588

  Trompette, Aurelien ^a   Divanovic, Senad ^a   Visintin, Alberto ^b   Blanchard, Carine ^a   Hegde, Rashmi S ^a   Madan, Rajat ^a   Thorne, Peter S ^c   Wills Karp, Marsha ^a   Gioannini, Theresa L ^d,e   Weiss, Jerry P ^d,e   Karp, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DER P 2 ALLERGEN; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN MD 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTHMA; DUST; HOMINID; HOMOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIPID; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; RODENT;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AIRWAY; ALLERGENICITY; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

AIR; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DERMATOPHAGOIDES; ASTHMA; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 96; MICE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PROTEIN BINDING; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

MUS; PYROGLYPHIDAE;

EID: 59049100417     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07548     Document Type: Article

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