Targeting of DC-SIGN on human dendritic cells by minor fimbriated Porphyromonas gingivalis strains elicits a distinct effector T cell response

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 5694-5704

  Zeituni, Amir E ^a   Jotwani, Ravi ^a   Carrion, Julio ^a   Cutler, Christopher W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING ANTIBODY; CARBOHYDRATE; CD209 ANTIGEN; CYTOCHALASIN D; CYTOKINE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; DEREGULATION; EFFECTOR CELL; FIMBRIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAJI CELL; STABLE TRANSFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENDOCYTOSIS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MONOCYTES; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TH1 CELLS; TH2 CELLS;

EID: 77949405195     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0901030     Document Type: Article

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