Innate immune lectins kill bacteria expressing blood group antigen

Nature Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-301

  Stowell, Sean R ^a   Arthur, Connie M ^a   Dias Baruffi, Marcelo ^b   Rodrigues, Lilian C ^b   Gourdine, Jean Philippe ^a   Heimburg Molinaro, Jamie ^a   Ju, Tongzhong ^a   Molinaro, Ross J ^a   Rivera Marrero, Carlos ^a   Xia, Baoyun ^a   Smith, David F ^a   Cummings, Richard D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 4; GALECTIN 8; GLYCAN; LECTIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOOD GROUP ANTIGENS; ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 4; GALECTINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 77749239686     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2103     Document Type: Article

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