Genes that fight infection: What the Drosophila genome says about animal immunity

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 442-449

  Khush, Ranjiv S ^a   Lemaitre, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INSECT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYTOKINES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY; INSECT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NF-KAPPA B; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0034307582     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02095-3     Document Type: Review

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