Evidence for the involvement of mTOR inhibition and basal autophagy in familial Mediterranean fever phenotype

Human Immunology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-138

  Mitroulis, Ioannis ^a   Kourtzelis, Ioannis ^a,b   Kambas, Konstantinos ^a   Chrysanthopoulou, Akrivi ^a   Ritis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Familial Mediterranean fever; MEFV; MTOR; Pyrin

Indexed keywords

AUTOPHAGY PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; MEFV GENE; METABOLIC STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AUTOPHAGY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEUTROPHILS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 78651241236     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.11.006     Document Type: Article

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