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ArticlePathogens & immunity2017

The Immunostimulatory Capacity of Nontypeable

Gabrielle N Gaultier, Kayla N Colledanchise, Alaa Alhazmi, Marina Ulanova

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Article in Pathogens & immunity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gabrielle N GaultierDepartment of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
Kayla N ColledanchiseDepartment of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
Alaa AlhazmiDepartment of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
Marina UlanovaDepartment of Biology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
Lakehead University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundWe have recently found that lipooligosaccharide (LOS) isolated from encapsulated strains of

methodsFollowing stimulation of human monocytic THP-1 cells with killed NTHi strain 375, or with the corresponding amount of LOS, we studied the protein and gene expression of immunostimulatory and antigen-presenting molecules, cytokines, and innate immune receptors.

resultsStimulation with LOS resulted in lower expression of adhesion (CD54, CD58) as well as costimulatory molecules (CD40, CD86), but in higher expression of antigen-presenting molecules (HLA-DR and HLA-ABC) compared to killed NTHi, whereas killed bacteria induced higher release of both TNF-α and IL-10. The results indicate that while LOS of NTHi has decreased capacity to induce pro-inflammatory responses compared to

conclusionsConsidering the important role of NTHi as a respiratory pathogen, and its currently increasing significance in the etiology of invasive infections, LOS deserves further attention as a vaccine antigen, which also has potent adjuvant properties.

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innate immune responsesLipooligosaccharideNontypeable Haemophilus influenzaeTHP-1 cells

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PMID30993246
PMCPMC6423806
OpenAlexW2587812584

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