Activation of human mast cells by retrocyclin and protegrin highlight their immunomodulatory and antimicrobial properties

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 28573-28587

  Gupta, Kshitij ^a   Kotian, Akhil ^a   Subramanian, Hariharan ^a   Daniell, Henry ^a   Ali, Hydar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Chloroplast; Immune response; Immunity; Immunology and Microbiology Section; Mast cells; MrgX2; Protegrin; Retrocyclin

Indexed keywords

FORMYLPEPTIDE RECEPTOR LIKE 1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MAS RELATED G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR X2; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEGRIN; PROTEGRIN 1; RETROCYCLIN 100; RETROCYCLIN 101; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; DEFENSIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTOR; MRGPRX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; PROTEGRIN-1; THETA-DEFENSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CHLOROPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BINDING; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MAST CELL; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; MAST CELL LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RBL 2H3 CELL LINE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DEGRANULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTOR; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACTERIA; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DEGRANULATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DEFENSINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MAST CELLS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RATS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84945156336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.5611     Document Type: Article

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