Neisseria gonorrhoeae evades calprotectin-mediated nutritional immunity and survives neutrophil extracellular traps by production of TdfH

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2982-2994

  Jean, Sophonie ^a,c   Juneau, Richard A ^b,d   Criss, Alison K ^b   Cornelissen, Cynthia N ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Virginia Western Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN; IRON; IRON CHELATE; LACTOFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN A; MANGANESE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN FETA; PROTEIN HPUB; PROTEIN TDFH; PROTEIN ZUR; SIDEROPHORE; TONB DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER; TRANSFERRIN BINDING PROTEIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; TDFH PROTEIN, NEISSERIA; ZINC SULFATE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR TRAP; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; GONORRHEA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS; GONORRHEA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEUTROPHILS; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 84994355475     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00319-16     Document Type: Article

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