The Drosophila caspase Dredd is required to resist Gram-negative bacterial infection

EMBO Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 353-358

  Leulier, François ^a   Rodriguez, Antony ^b   Khush, Ranjiv S ^a   Abrams, John M ^b   Lemaitre, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CASPASE; DPT PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INSECT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0034305744     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvd073     Document Type: Article

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