Leukocidins
"Leukocidins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pore forming proteins originally discovered for toxic activity to LEUKOCYTES. They are EXOTOXINS produced by some pathogenic STAPHYLOCOCCUS and STREPTOCOCCUS that destroy leukocytes by lysis of the cytoplasmic granules and are partially responsible for the pathogenicity of the organisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D007956
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.695.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Leukocidins- Leukocidins
- Leukocidin Proteins
- Proteins, Leukocidin
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Leukocidins" by people in Profiles.
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Scherr TD, Hanke ML, Huang O, James DB, Horswill AR, Bayles KW, Fey PD, Torres VJ, Kielian T. Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms Induce Macrophage Dysfunction Through Leukocidin AB and Alpha-Toxin. mBio. 2015 Aug 25; 6(4).
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Gonzalez BE, Hulten KG, Dishop MK, Lamberth LB, Hammerman WA, Mason EO, Kaplan SL. Pulmonary manifestations in children with invasive community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus infection. Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 01; 41(5):583-90.
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Becker EL, Henson PM. In vitro studies of immunologically induced secretion of mediators from cells and related phenomena. Adv Immunol. 1973; 17:93-193.