p47 GTPases: Regulators of immunity to intracellular pathogens

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 100-109

  Taylor, Gregory A ^a,b   Feng, Carl G ^c   Sher, Alan ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN P47;

GENE TARGETING; HOST CELL; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

EID: 1142298755     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1270     Document Type: Review

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