Yersinia pestis can bypass protective antibodies to LcrV and activation with gamma interferon to survive and induce apoptosis in murine macrophages

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1457-1466

  Noel, Betty L ^a   Lilo, Sarit ^a   Capurso, Daniel ^a,c   Hill, Jim ^b   Bliska, James B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Whitehall   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; LCRV ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN LCRV; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLAGUE; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 70349669620     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00172-09     Document Type: Article

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