The glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protease Sap9 modulates the interaction of Candida albicans with human neutrophils

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5216-5224

  Hornbach, Anke ^a   Heyken, Antje ^b   Schild, Lydia ^b   Hube, Bernhard ^b,c   Löffler, Jürgen ^a   Kurzai, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b HANS KNÖLL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SAP9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; MODULATION; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; VIRULENCE;

ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MIGRATION ASSAYS, LEUKOCYTE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; NEUTROPHILS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 72449188627     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00723-09     Document Type: Article

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