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Volume 10;  2009
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Immunome Knowledge Base (IKB): An integrated service for immunome research
Csaba Ortutay and Mauno Vihinen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 3. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-3.
PMCID: PMC2632617
Research article
Interplay between the heterotrimeric G-protein subunits Gαq and Gαi2 sets the threshold for chemotaxis and TCR activation
Jacob Ngai, Marit Inngjerdingen, Torunn Berge, and Kjetil Taskén
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 27. Published online 2009 May 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-27.
PMCID: PMC2694176
Induction of granzyme B expression in T-cell receptor/CD28-stimulated human regulatory T cells is suppressed by inhibitors of the PI3K-mTOR pathway
Olga V Efimova and Todd W Kelley
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 59. Published online 2009 November 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-59.
PMCID: PMC2784757
Research Articles
Modulators of arginine metabolism support cancer immunosurveillance
Giusy Capuano, Nicolò Rigamonti, Matteo Grioni, Massimo Freschi, and Matteo Bellone
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 1. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-1.
PMCID: PMC2648942
High expression of 5-lipoxygenase in normal and malignant mantle zone B lymphocytes
Yilmaz Mahshid, Marcus-René Lisy, Xiao Wang, Rainer Spanbroek, Jenny Flygare, Birger Christensson, Magnus Björkholm, Birgitta Sander, Andreas JR Habenicht, and Hans-Erik Claesson
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 2. Published online 2009 January 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-2.
PMCID: PMC2631017
Identification in milk of a serum amyloid A peptide chemoattractant for B lymphoblasts
Berardo de Jesus Rodriguez, Claire Chevaleyre, Gwénaële Henry, Daniel Mollé, Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant, Mustapha Berri, François Boulay, Joëlle Léonil, François Meurens, and Henri Salmon
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 4. Published online 2009 January 23. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-4.
PMCID: PMC2637234
Low frequency of CD4+CD25+ Treg in SLE patients: a heritable trait associated with CTLA4 and TGFβ gene variants
Marta Barreto, Ricardo C Ferreira, Lara Lourenço, Maria F Moraes-Fontes, Eugénia Santos, Miguel Alves, Cláudia Carvalho, Berta Martins, Rita Andreia, João F Viana, Carlos Vasconcelos, Luísa Mota-Vieira, Carlos Ferreira, Jocelyne Demengeot, and Astrid M Vicente
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 5. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-5.
PMCID: PMC2656467
Chemokines are secreted by monocytes following OK-432 (lyophilized Streptococcus pyogenes) stimulation
Carla Olsnes, Helen Stavang, Karl Brokstad, Jan Olofsson, and Hans J Aarstad
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 6. Published online 2009 January 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-6.
PMCID: PMC2639540
Gut health immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory functions of gut enzyme digested high protein micro-nutrient dietary supplement-Enprocal
Jagat R Kanwar and Rupinder K Kanwar
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 7. Published online 2009 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-7.
PMCID: PMC2667481
Characterization of rag1 mutant zebrafish leukocytes
Lora Petrie-Hanson, Claudia Hohn, and Larry Hanson
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 8. Published online 2009 February 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-8.
PMCID: PMC2645361
Combined TLR2 and TLR4 ligation in the context of bacterial or helminth extracts in human monocyte derived dendritic cells: molecular correlates for Th1/Th2 polarization
Elly van Riet, Bart Everts, Kim Retra, Marion Phylipsen, Jaap J van Hellemond, Aloysius GM Tielens, Desiree van der Kleij, Franca C Hartgers, and Maria Yazdanbakhsh
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 9. Published online 2009 February 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-9.
PMCID: PMC2672924
ER stress affects processing of MHC class I-associated peptides
Diana P Granados, Pierre-Luc Tanguay, Marie-Pierre Hardy, Étienne Caron, Danielle de Verteuil, Sylvain Meloche, and Claude Perreault
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 10. Published online 2009 February 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-10.
PMCID: PMC2657905
Dynamics of central and peripheral immunomodulation in a murine glioma model
Benjamin C Kennedy, Lisa M Maier, Randy D'Amico, Christopher E Mandigo, Elizabeth J Fontana, Allen Waziri, Marcela C Assanah, Peter Canoll, Richard CE Anderson, David E Anderson, and Jeffrey N Bruce
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 11. Published online 2009 February 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-11.
PMCID: PMC2654428
The effects of whole mushrooms during inflammation
Sanhong Yu, Veronika Weaver, Keith Martin, and Margherita T Cantorna
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 12. Published online 2009 February 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-12.
PMCID: PMC2649035
Identification of conformational epitopes for human IgG on Chemotaxis inhibitory protein of Staphylococcus aureus
Erika Gustafsson, Pieter-Jan Haas, Björn Walse, Marcel Hijnen, Christina Furebring, Mats Ohlin, Jos AG van Strijp, and Kok PM van Kessel
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 13. Published online 2009 March 11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-13.
PMCID: PMC2662796
Interferon-gamma coordinates CCL3-mediated neutrophil recruitment in vivo
Cynthia A Bonville, Caroline M Percopo, Kimberly D Dyer, Jiliang Gao, Calman Prussin, Barbara Foster, Helene F Rosenberg, and Joseph B Domachowske
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 14. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-14.
PMCID: PMC2662797
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha induced expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 through p21-activated Kinase-1
Ling Zhou, Chunli Yan, Roben G Gieling, Yujiro Kida, Warren Garner, Wei Li, and Yuan-Ping Han
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 15. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-15.
PMCID: PMC2669056
Anti-idiotypic antibodies: a new approach in prion research
Anja Colja Venturini, Maja Bresjanac, Tanja Vranac, Simon Koren, Mojca Narat, Mara Popović, and Vladka Čurin Šerbec
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 16. Published online 2009 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-16.
PMCID: PMC2666643
The Drosophila cell adhesion molecule Neuroglian regulates Lissencephaly-1 localisation in circulating immunosurveillance cells
Michael J Williams
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 17. Published online 2009 March 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-17.
PMCID: PMC2667480
Identification of novel transcriptional regulators involved in macrophage differentiation and activation in U937 cells
Young-Sook Baek, Stefan Haas, Holger Hackstein, Gregor Bein, Maria Hernandez-Santana, Hans Lehrach, Sascha Sauer, and Harald Seitz
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 18. Published online 2009 April 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-18.
PMCID: PMC2674038
Genetic ablation or pharmacological blockade of dipeptidyl peptidase IV does not impact T cell-dependent immune responses
Kalpit A Vora, Gene Porter, Roche Peng, Yan Cui, Kellyann Pryor, George Eiermann, and Dennis M Zaller
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 19. Published online 2009 April 9. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-19.
PMCID: PMC2674587
Differential intracellular fate of Burkholderia pseudomallei 844 and Burkholderia thailandensis UE5 in human monocyte-derived dendritic cells and macrophages
Jaruek Charoensap, Pongsak Utaisincharoen, Anneke Engering, and Stitaya Sirisinha
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 20. Published online 2009 April 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-20.
PMCID: PMC2683794
Induction of mast cell accumulation, histamine release and skin edema by N49 phospholipase A2
Ji-Fu Wei, Xiao-Long Wei, Ya-Zhen Mo, and Shao-Heng He
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 21. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-21.
PMCID: PMC2681446
Bos taurus genome sequence reveals the assortment of immunoglobulin and surrogate light chain genes in domestic cattle
Anna Ekman, Mikael Niku, Jenni Liljavirta, and Antti Iivanainen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 22. Published online 2009 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-22.
PMCID: PMC2686674
Structure-Function analysis of the CTLA-4 interaction with PP2A
Wendy A Teft, Thu A Chau, and Joaquín Madrenas
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 23. Published online 2009 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-23.
PMCID: PMC2683795
Association of IL-10 and IL-10Rβ gene polymorphisms with graft-versus-host disease after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation from an HLA-identical sibling donor
Jyrki Sivula, Hannu Turpeinen, Liisa Volin, and Jukka Partanen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 24. Published online 2009 May 4. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-24.
PMCID: PMC2685414
Respiratory burst function of ovine neutrophils
John-Paul Tung, John F Fraser, Peter Wood, and Yoke Lin Fung
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 25. Published online 2009 May 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-25.
PMCID: PMC2685415
Antibody-mediated immunity to the obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Coxiella burnetii is Fc receptor- and complement-independent
Jeffrey G Shannon, Diane C Cockrell, Kazue Takahashi, Gregory L Stahl, and Robert A Heinzen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 26. Published online 2009 May 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-26.
PMCID: PMC2689861
A kinase-dead knock-in mutation in mTOR leads to early embryonic lethality and is dispensable for the immune system in heterozygous mice
Boris Shor, Druie Cavender, and Crafford Harris
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 28. Published online 2009 May 20. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-28.
PMCID: PMC2698930
T cells cooperate with palmitic acid in induction of beta cell apoptosis
Tamara Cvjetićanin, Ivana Stojanović, Gordana Timotijević, Stanislava Stošić-Grujičić, and Djordje Miljković
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 29. Published online 2009 May 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-29.
PMCID: PMC2693514
High-sensitive and rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection by IFN-γ release assay among HIV-infected individuals in BCG-vaccinated area
Weimin Jiang, Lingyun Shao, Ying Zhang, Shu Zhang, Chengyan Meng, Yunya Xu, Lingli Huang, Yun Wang, Ying Wang, Xinhua Weng, and Wenhong Zhang
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 31. Published online 2009 May 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-31.
PMCID: PMC2700818
Different levels of humoral immunoreactivity to different wheat cultivars gliadin are present in patients with celiac disease and in patients with multiple myeloma
Aleksandra Konic-Ristic, Dejan Dodig, Radmilo Krstic, Svetislav Jelic, Ivan Stankovic, Aleksandra Ninkovic, Jelena Radic, Irina Besu, Branka Bonaci-Nikolic, Njegica Jojic, Milica Djordjevic, Dragan Popovic, and Zorica Juranic
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 32. Published online 2009 May 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-32.
PMCID: PMC2696423
Bone marrow cell derived arginase I is the major source of allergen-induced lung arginase but is not required for airway hyperresponsiveness, remodeling and lung inflammatory responses in mice
Kathryn A Niese, Ann R Collier, Amanda R Hajek, Stephen D Cederbaum, William E O'Brien, Marsha Wills-Karp, Marc E Rothenberg, and Nives Zimmermann
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 33. Published online 2009 June 1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-33.
PMCID: PMC2697973
Increased levels of soluble CD226 in sera accompanied by decreased membrane CD226 expression on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from cancer patients
Zhuwei Xu, Tao Zhang, Ran Zhuang, Yun Zhang, Wei Jia, Chaojun Song, Kun Yang, Angang Yang, and Boquan Jin
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 34. Published online 2009 June 2. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-34.
PMCID: PMC2700819
Toll-like receptors, chemokine receptors and death receptor ligands responses in SARS coronavirus infected human monocyte derived dendritic cells
Helen KW Law, Chung Yan Cheung, Sin Fun Sia, Yuk On Chan, JS Malik Peiris, and Yu Lung Lau
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 35. Published online 2009 June 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-35.
PMCID: PMC2700820
The expression of the β-defensins hBD-2 and hBD-3 is differentially regulated by NF-κB and MAPK/AP-1 pathways in an in vitro model of Candida esophagitis
Nadine Steubesand, Karlheinz Kiehne, Gabriele Brunke, Rene Pahl, Karina Reiss, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Sabine Schubert, Stefan Schreiber, Ulrich R Fölsch, Philip Rosenstiel, and Alexander Arlt
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 36. Published online 2009 June 12. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-36.
PMCID: PMC2702365
Conserved cryptic recombination signals in Vκ gene segments are cleaved in small pre-B cells
Anne E Lieberman, Masayuki Kuraoka, Marco Davila, Garnett Kelsoe, and Lindsay G Cowell
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 37. Published online 2009 June 25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-37.
PMCID: PMC2711918
The orphan adapter protein SLY1 as a novel anti-apoptotic protein required for thymocyte development
Bernhard Reis, Klaus Pfeffer, and Sandra Beer-Hammer
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 38. Published online 2009 July 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-38.
PMCID: PMC2717057
The effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester on the functions of human monocyte-derived dendritic cells
Li-Chieh Wang, Yu-Li Lin, Yu-Chih Liang, Yao-Hsu Yang, Jyh-Hong Lee, Hsin-Hui Yu, Wen-Mein Wu, and Bor-Luen Chiang
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 39. Published online 2009 July 16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-39.
PMCID: PMC2724478
Sequence determinants of innate immune activation by short interfering RNAs
Amber Goodchild, Nicole Nopper, Andrew King, Tram Doan, Marcel Tanudji, Greg M Arndt, Michael Poidinger, Laurent P Rivory, and Toby Passioura
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 40. Published online 2009 July 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-40.
PMCID: PMC2724479
In vitro, but not in vivo, reversibility of peritoneal macrophages activation during experimental acute pancreatitis
Sabrina Gea-Sorlí and Daniel Closa
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 42. Published online 2009 July 31. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-42.
PMCID: PMC2727495
Enhancement of the priming efficacy of DNA vaccines encoding dendritic cell-targeted antigens by synergistic toll-like receptor ligands
Claudius Grossmann, Matthias Tenbusch, Godwin Nchinda, Vladimir Temchura, Ghulam Nabi, Geoffrey W Stone, Richard S Kornbluth, and Klaus Überla
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 43. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-43.
PMCID: PMC2731061
Bioluminescence-based visualization of CD4 T cell dynamics using a T lineage-specific luciferase transgenic model1
Joseph H Chewning, Kari J Dugger, Tandra R Chaudhuri, Kurt R Zinn, and Casey T Weaver
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 44. Published online 2009 August 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-44.
PMCID: PMC2736162
The Toll-Like receptor adaptor TRIF contributes to otitis media pathogenesis and recovery
Anke Leichtle, Michelle Hernandez, Kwang Pak, Nicholas J Webster, Stephen I Wasserman, and Allen F Ryan
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 45. Published online 2009 August 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-45.
PMCID: PMC2736931
Interleukin-21 induces the differentiation of human umbilical cord blood CD34-lineage- cells into pseudomature lytic NK cells
Giuseppina Bonanno, Andrea Mariotti, Annabella Procoli, Maria Corallo, Giovanni Scambia, Luca Pierelli, and Sergio Rutella
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 46. Published online 2009 August 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-46.
PMCID: PMC2743656
Endogenous Fms-like Tyrosine Kinase-3 Ligand levels are not altered in mice after a severe burn and infection
Julia K Bohannon, Weihua Cui, and Tracy Toliver-Kinsky
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 47. Published online 2009 August 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-47.
PMCID: PMC2744912
Understanding diversity of human innate immunity receptors: analysis of surface features of leucine-rich repeat domains in NLRs and TLRs
Andrei Y Istomin and Adam Godzik
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 48. Published online 2009 September 3. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-48.
PMCID: PMC2747839
Ethanol inhibits LPS-induced signaling and modulates cytokine production in peritoneal macrophages in vivo in a model for binge drinking
Stephen B Pruett and Ruping Fan
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 49. Published online 2009 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-49.
PMCID: PMC2761873
Control of CD56 expression and tumor cell cytotoxicity in human Vγ2Vδ2 T cells
Elizabeth M Urban, Haishan Li, Cheryl Armstrong, Chiara Focaccetti, Cristiana Cairo, and C David Pauza
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 50. Published online 2009 September 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-50.
PMCID: PMC2761874
Biochemical analysis of CTLA-4 immunoreactive material from human blood
Matt Tector, Bhupendra O Khatri, Karen Kozinski, Kate Dennert, and Martin K Oaks
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 51. Published online 2009 September 22. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-51.
PMCID: PMC2758829
Prerequisites for cytokine measurements in clinical trials with multiplex immunoassays
Wilco de Jager, Katarzyna Bourcier, Ger T Rijkers, Berent J Prakken, and Vicki Seyfert-Margolis
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 52. Published online 2009 September 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-52.
PMCID: PMC2761376
Identification of SH3 domain interaction partners of human FasL (CD178) by phage display screening
Matthias Voss, Marcus Lettau, and Ottmar Janssen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 53. Published online 2009 October 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-53.
PMCID: PMC2763855
Modulation of pathogen-induced CCL20 secretion from HT-29 human intestinal epithelial cells by commensal bacteria
Shomik Sibartie, Ann M O'Hara, Jude Ryan, Áine Fanning, Jim O'Mahony, Shaun O'Neill, Barbara Sheil, Liam O'Mahony, and Fergus Shanahan
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 54. Published online 2009 October 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-54.
PMCID: PMC2763856
Selenium deficiency impairs host innate immune response and induces susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection
Chengmin Wang, Haijing Wang, Jing Luo, Yi Hu, Lei Wei, Mingxing Duan, and Hongxuan He
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 55. Published online 2009 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-55.
PMCID: PMC2774297
The inhibitory receptor LILRB4 (ILT3) modulates antigen presenting cell phenotype and, along with LILRB2 (ILT4), is upregulated in response to Salmonella infection
Damien P Brown, Des C Jones, Katie J Anderson, Nicolas Lapaque, Robin A Buerki, John Trowsdale, and Rachel L Allen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 56. Published online 2009 October 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-56.
PMCID: PMC2773765
Selenoproteins regulate macrophage invasiveness and extracellular matrix-related gene expression
Bradley A Carlson, Min-Hyuk Yoo, Yasuyo Sano, Aniruddha Sengupta, Jin Young Kim, Robert Irons, Vadim N Gladyshev, Dolph L Hatfield, and Jin Mo Park
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 57. Published online 2009 October 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-57.
PMCID: PMC2774298
Derivation and validation of murine histologic alterations resembling asthma, with two proposed histologic grade parameters
Mitchell S Wachtel, Goutam Shome, Mhairi Sutherland, and John J McGlone
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 58. Published online 2009 October 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-58.
PMCID: PMC2777149
Methodology Articles
Efficient isolation of highly purified tonsil B lymphocytes using RosetteSep with allogeneic human red blood cells
Jonathan Zuccolo, Tammy L Unruh, and Julie P Deans
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 30. Published online 2009 May 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-30.
PMCID: PMC2695429
Enrichment and analysis of secretory lysosomes from lymphocyte populations
Hendrik Schmidt, Christoph Gelhaus, Ralph Lucius, Melanie Nebendahl, Matthias Leippe, and Ottmar Janssen
BMC Immunol. 2009; 10: 41. Published online 2009 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2172-10-41.
PMCID: PMC2726124
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