The novel human β-defensin 114 regulates lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated inflammation and protects sperm from motility loss

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 12270-12282

  Yu, Heguo ^a   Dong, Jing ^e   Gu, Yihua ^a   Liu, Haiyan ^f   Xin, Aijie ^a,g   Shi, Huijuan ^a   Sun, Fei ^d   Zhang, Yonglian ^a,c   Lin, Donghai ^b   Diao, Hua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LOW CYTOTOXICITIES; PATHOGENIC MICROBES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA; COVALENT BONDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAMMALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDES; RNA;

PATHOLOGY;

BETA DEFENSIN; DEFB114 PROTEIN; GALACTOSAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CYTOTOXICITY; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG POTENCY; EPIDIDYMIS; ERYTHROCYTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GINGIVA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; BETA-DEFENSINS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; SEPSIS; SPERM MOTILITY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84876900999     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.411884     Document Type: Article

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