Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lytic Transglycosylases LtgA and LtgD Reduce Host Innate Immune Signaling through TLR2 and NOD2

ACS Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 624-633

  Knilans, Kayla J ^a,c   Hackett, Kathleen T ^b   Anderson, James E ^a   Weng, Chengyu ^a   Dillard, Joseph P ^b   Duncan, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

innate immunity; lysozyme; lytic transglycosylase; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; NOD2; peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LYSOZYME; LYTIC TRANSGLYCOSYLASE A; LYTIC TRANSGLYCOSYLASE D; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MURAMIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; NOD2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TLR2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPERNATANT; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; THP-1 CELL LINE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOKINES; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MURAMIC ACIDS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NOD2 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THP-1 CELLS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 85029219278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23738227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.6b00088     Document Type: Article

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