Critical evaluation of the role of the Toll-like receptor 18-Wheeler in the host defense of Drosophila

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 666-673

  Ligozygakis, Petros ^a   Bulet, Philippe ^a   Reichhart, Jean Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; 18 WHEELER PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATTACIN A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ATTACIN ANTIBACTERIAL PROTEIN, INSECT; ATTACIN B PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ATTACIN C PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ATTACIN-A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ATTACIN-B PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ATTACIN-C PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FAT BODY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INSECT; LARVA; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSGENES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS;

EID: 0036023960     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf130     Document Type: Article

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