Anthrax lethal toxin disrupts the endothelial permeability barrier through blocking p38 signaling

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1438-1445

  Liu, Tiegang ^a   Milia, Erica ^a   Warburton, Rod R ^a   Hill, Nicholas S ^a   Gaestel, Matthias ^b   Kayyali, Usamah S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 3B; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOLEAK; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LETHAL GENE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HSP27 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; RATTUS;

EID: 84855725698     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22859     Document Type: Article

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