Human airway epithelial cell responses to Neisseria lactamica and purified porin via toll-like receptor 2-dependent signaling

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5314-5323

  Liu, Xiuping ^a   Wetzler, Lee M ^a   Nascimento, Laura Oliveira ^b   Massari, Paola ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MESSENGER RNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORB PROTEIN; PORIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL LINE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERLEUKIN-8; NEISSERIA LACTAMICA; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; PORINS; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 78649977974     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00681-10     Document Type: Article

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