Critical roles of ASC inflammasomes in caspase-1 activation and host innate resistance to Streptococcus pneumoniae infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4890-4899

  Fang, Rendong ^a   Tsuchiya, Kohsuke ^a   Kawamura, Ikuo ^a   Shen, Yanna ^a,b   Hara, Hideki ^a   Sakai, Shunsuke ^a   Yamamoto, Takeshi ^a   Fernandes Alnemri, Teresa ^b   Yang, Ruili ^a   Hernandez Cuellar, Eduardo ^a   Dewamitta, Sita R ^a   Xu, Yanting ^a   Qu, Huixin ^a   Alnemri, Emad S ^c   Mitsuyama, Masao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENT IN MELANOMA 2; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; APOPTOSIS ASSOCIATED SPECKLIKE PROTEIN CONTAINING CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN; CRYOPYRIN; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; PNEUMOLYSIN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG LAVAGE; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 1; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMASOMES; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 80555133274     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1100381     Document Type: Article

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