ATP5MK and infection: Another example of a protective effect is that pre-administration of exogenous bovine or hAGP or transgenic over-expression of rat AGP in mice, significantly increased survival against a lethal infection with the Gram-negative bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae (Hochepied et al., 2000) or Bacillus anthracis (Shemyakin et al., 2005).