Immunoproteomic identification of secretory and subcellular protein antigens and functional evaluation of the secretome fraction of Mycobacterium immunogenum a newly recognized species of the Mycobacterium chelonae- Mycobacterium abscessus group

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2319-2330

  Gupta, Manish K ^a   Subramanian, Venkataramanan ^a   Yadav, Jagjit S ^a  

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

Author keywords

Alveolar macrophages; Antigens; Immune response; Immunoproteomics; Mycobacterium immunogenum

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; ELONGATION FACTOR TU; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGENICITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM IMMUNOGENUM;

EID: 66749167039     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr8009462     Document Type: Article

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