Ltx1, a mouse locus that influences the susceptibility of macrophages to cytolysis caused by intoxication with Bacillus anthracis lethal factor, maps to chromosome 11

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 581-591

  Roberts, Julia E ^a   Watters, James W ^b   Ballard, Jimmy D ^b,c   Dietrich, William F ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CHROMOSOME 11; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INTOXICATION; LETHAL GENE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031875676     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00953.x     Document Type: Article

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