MicroRNA-21 targets the vitamin D-dependent antimicrobial pathway in leprosy

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 267-273

  Liu, Philip T ^a   Wheelwright, Matthew ^a   Teles, Rosane ^a   Komisopoulou, Evangelia ^a,b   Edfeldt, Kristina ^a   Ferguson, Benjamin ^a   Mehta, Manali D ^a   Vazirnia, Aria ^a   Rea, Thomas H ^c   Sarno, Euzenir N ^d   Graeber, Thomas G ^a,b   Modlin, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYTOCHROME; CYTOCHROME P450 27B1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MICRORNA 21; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN DEFECT; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D3 1-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BETA-DEFENSINS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LEPROSY; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; MICRORNAS; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; VITAMIN D;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 84856697951     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2584     Document Type: Article

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