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SUBMITTER: Weiss E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731131 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Weiss Elisabeth E Hanzelmann Dennis D Fehlhaber Beate B Klos Andreas A von Loewenich Friederike D FD Liese Jan J Peschel Andreas A Kretschmer Dorothee D
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20170830 1
Leukocytes express formyl-peptide receptors (FPRs), which sense microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP) molecules, leading to leukocyte chemotaxis and activation. We recently demonstrated that phenol-soluble modulin (PSM) peptides from highly pathogenic <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> are efficient ligands for the human FPR2. How PSM detection by FPR2 impacts on the course of <i>S. aureus</i> infections has remained unknown. We characterized the specificity of mouse FPR2 (mFpr2) using a recepto ...[more]