The link between antibodies to oxldl and natural protection against pneumococci depends on dh gene conservation

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 210, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 875-890

  Vale, Andre M ^a,e   Kapoor, Pratibha ^a   Skibinski, Greg A ^b   Elgavish, Ada ^a   Mahmoud, Tamer I ^b,g   Zemlin, Cosima ^a   Zemlin, Michael ^b,f   Burrows, Peter D ^b,e   Nobrega, Alberto ^e   Kearney, John F ^b   Briles, David E ^b,c   Schroeder, Harry W ^a,b,d  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^g CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NATURAL ANTIBODY; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GERMLINE MICRONUCLEUS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CROSS REACTION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GERM CELL; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY FORMATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC LOCI; GERM CELLS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RNA, MESSENGER; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879558580     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20121861     Document Type: Article

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