Article
Pro-IL-18 secreted by keratinocytes detects the group A streptococcal protease SpeB
2021-08-22
Abstract excerpt
Group A Streptococcus (GAS, Streptococcus pyogenes ) is a professional human pathogen that commonly infects the skin. Keratinocytes are one of the first cells to contact GAS, and by inducing inflammation, they can initiate the earliest immune responses to pathogen invasion. Here, we characterized the proinflammatory cytokine repertoire produced by primary human keratinocytes and surrogate cell lines commonly use...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4120a7a8-0853-5165-a9bb-ee452a9f0f93
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.08.22.457234
