Anopheles gambiae Ag-STAT, a new insect member of the STAT family, is activated in response to bacterial infection

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 959-967

  Barillas Mury, Carolina ^a,b   Han, Yeon Soo ^a   Seeley, Douglas ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunity; Infection; Mosquito; STAT

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PERVANADATE; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; STAT5 PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA RECOMBINATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BACTERIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOCYTES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VANADATES;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARACHNIDA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; INSECTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033557744     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.4.959     Document Type: Article

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