Treatment of L(2)mbn Drosophila tumorous blood cells with the steroid hormone ecdysone amplifies the inducibility of antimicrobial peptide gene expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 877-886

  Dimarcq, Jean Luc ^a   Imler, Jean Luc ^a   Lanot, Rene ^a   Ezekowitz, R Alan B ^b   Hoffmann, Jules A ^a   Janeway, Charles A ^c   Lagueux, Marie ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Ecdysone; Insect immunity; L(2)mbn cells; Macrophage; Phagocytosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CECROPIN; DIPTERICIN; DROSOCIN; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; INSECT PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PEPTIDE; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELANOGASTER; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS;

EID: 0031251977     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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