Immune activation efficacy of indolicidin is enhanced upon conjugation with carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sur, Abhinav ^b   Pradhan, Biswaranjan ^a   Banerjee, Arka ^a   Aich, Palok ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; INDOLICIDIN; INDOLICIDIN CARBON NANOTUBE CONJUGATE; INDOLICIDIN GOLD NANOPARTICLE CONJUGATE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CYTOKINE; GOLD; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG CONJUGATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INNATE IMMUNITY; ISOTHERM; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLD; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MACROPHAGES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NF-KAPPA B; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84929485969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123905     Document Type: Article

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