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Moraxella catarrhalis adhesin UspA1-derived recombinant fragment rD-7 induces monocyte differentiation to CD14+CD206+ phenotype.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Xie Qi, Brackenbury Louise S, Hill Darryl J, Williams Neil A, Qu Xun, Virji Mumtaz
Abstract excerpt
Circulating monocytes in the bloodstream typically migrate to other tissues and differentiate into tissue resident macrophages, the process being determined by the constituents of the microenvironments encountered. These may include microbes and their products. In this study, we investigated whether Moraxella catarrhalis Ubiquitous Surface Protein A1 (UspA1), known to bind to a widely expressed human cell surface...
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