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SUBMITTER: Yang A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5584120 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Aizhen A Xie Zhanli Z Wang Bo B Colman Robert W RW Dai Jihong J Wu Yi Y
The Journal of experimental medicine 20170809 9
In this study, we show that mice lacking high-molecular-weight kininogen (HK) were resistant to lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced mortality and had significantly reduced circulating LPS levels. Replenishment of HK-deficient mice with human HK recovered the LPS levels and rendered the mice susceptible to LPS-induced mortality. Binding of HK to LPS occurred through the O-polysaccharide/core oligosaccharide, consistent with the ability to bind LPS from <i>K. pneumoniae</i>, <i>P. aeruginosa</i>, <i> ...[more]