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Transcriptional mechanisms regulating alveolar epithelial cell-specific CCL5 secretion in pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 25 Jun 2004
Wickremasinghe Melissa I, Thomas Lynette H, O'Kane Cecilia M, Uddin Jasim, Friedland Jon S
Abstract excerpt
CCL5 (or RANTES (regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted)) recruits T lymphocytes and monocytes. The source and regulation of CCL5 in pulmonary tuberculosis are unclear. Infection of the human alveolar epithelial cell line (A549) by Mycobacterium tuberculosis caused no CCL5 secretion and little monocyte secretion. Conditioned medium from tuberculosis-infected human monocytes (CoMTB)...
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