2008
Salivating for Knowledge: Potential Pharmacological Agents in Tick Saliva
Hovius JW, Levi M, Fikrig E. Salivating for Knowledge: Potential Pharmacological Agents in Tick Saliva. PLOS Medicine 2008, 5: e43. PMID: 18271624, PMCID: PMC2235897, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050043.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2006
Cutting Edge: CD4 Is the Receptor for the Tick Saliva Immunosuppressor, Salp15
Garg R, Juncadella IJ, Ramamoorthi N, Ashish, Ananthanarayanan SK, Thomas V, Rincón M, Krueger JK, Fikrig E, Yengo CM, Anguita J. Cutting Edge: CD4 Is the Receptor for the Tick Saliva Immunosuppressor, Salp15. The Journal Of Immunology 2006, 177: 6579-6583. PMID: 17082567, PMCID: PMC4302324, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.10.6579.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDownstream effector proteinsSrc kinase LckC-terminal residuesLipid raft reorganizationEffector proteinsKinase LckTyrosine phosphorylationMolecular basisExtracellular domainEarly stepsSalp15T cell activationSalivary proteinsCD4 coreceptorProteinCalcium fluxCell activationT cellsCellsLckRepressionPhosphorylationIL-2 productionResiduesCoreceptor