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SUBMITTER: Sathyamoorthy T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4505956 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sathyamoorthy Tarangini T Tezera Liku B LB Walker Naomi F NF Brilha Sara S Saraiva Luisa L Mauri Francesco A FA Wilkinson Robert J RJ Friedland Jon S JS Elkington Paul T PT
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20150619 3
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global pandemic and drug resistance is rising. Multicellular granuloma formation is the pathological hallmark of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP or MMP-14) is a collagenase that is key in leukocyte migration and collagen destruction. In patients with TB, induced sputum MT1-MMP mRNA levels were increased 5.1-fold compared with matched controls and correlated positively with extent of lung infiltration on chest ...[more]