Opa proteins and CEACAMs: Pathways of immune engagement for pathogenic Neisseria

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 498-514

  Sadarangani, Manish ^a   Pollard, Andrew J ^a   Gray Owen, Scott D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adhesin; Epithelial cell; Gonococcal disease; Meningococcal disease; Neutrophil; T lymphocyte

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN RELATED CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN RELATED CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 6; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN RELATED CELL ADHESION MOLECULE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE; OPA PROTEIN; PORIN A; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL KILLING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG DESIGN; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MONOCYTE; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

EID: 79953302384     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2010.00260.x     Document Type: Review

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