A single dual-function enzyme controls the production of inflammatory NOD agonist peptidoglycan fragments by neisseria gonorrhoeae

mBio

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Lenz, Jonathan D ^a   Hackett, Kathleen T ^a   Dillard, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

High pressure liquid chromatography; Innate immunity; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Peptidoglycan; Peptidoglycan hydrolases

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; DEXTRO ALANINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LEVO DEXTRO CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TETRAPEPTIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NOD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LDCA GENE; MESO GENE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; CELL LINE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY;

CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CELL LINE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NOD1 SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; SERINE PROTEASES;

EID: 85033678316     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01464-17     Document Type: Article

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