Ficolin-2 Defends against Virulent Mycobacteria Tuberculosis Infection In Vivo, and Its Insufficiency Is Associated with Infection in Humans

Residue Lys57 in the Collagen-Like Region of Human L-Ficolin and Its Counterpart Lys47 in H-Ficolin Play a Key Role in the Interaction with the Mannan-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Proteases and the Collectin Receptor Calreticulin

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PD1-based DNA vaccine amplifies HIV-1 GAG-specific CD8+ T cells in mice

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Early Increased Ficolin-2 Concentrations are Associated with Severity of Liver Inflammation and Efficacy of anti-Viral Therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients

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Interferon-γ, tumor necrosis factor, and interleukin-18 cooperate to control growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in human macrophages

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Macrophage plasticity and polarization: in vivo veritas

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Mice Deficient in Ficolin, a Lectin Complement Pathway Recognition Molecule, Are Susceptible to Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection

(2012) Y. Endo et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

L-Ficolin Binds to the Glycoproteins Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase and Inhibits Influenza A Virus Infection Both in vitro and in vivo

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Interleukin 24 as a novel potential cytokine immunotherapy for the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

(2011) Yunfeng Ma et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Specifically Binding of L-ficolin to N-glycans of HCV Envelope Glycoproteins E1 and E2 Leads to Complement Activation

(2010) Jun Liu et al.   Cellular & Molecular Immunology

Natural lysophospholipids reduce Mycobacterium tuberculosis-induced cytotoxicity and induce anti-mycobacterial activity by a phagolysosome maturation-dependent mechanism in A549 type II alveolar epithelial cells

(2009) Emanuela Greco et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

Recurrent tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(2008) Jonathan E Golub et al.   AIDS

Galectin-3 functions as an opsonin and enhances the macrophage clearance of apoptotic neutrophils

(2008) A. Karlsson et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

Interleukin-17 in host defence against bacterial, mycobacterial and fungal pathogens

(2008) Meredith M. Curtis et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

Recognition of acetylated oligosaccharides by human L-ficolin

(2008) Anders Krarup et al.   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the United States, 1993-2007

(2008) N. Sarita Shah   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Functional SNPs in the human ficolin (FCN) genes reveal distinct geographical patterns

(2008) Tina Hummelshøj et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Lipoarabinomannan of Mycobacterium: Mannose capping by a multifunctional terminal mannosyltransferase

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Ficolins: Novel pattern recognition molecules of the innate immune response

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