PKSP-dependent reduction of phagolysosome fusion and intracellular kill of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by human monocyte-derived macrophages

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 793-803

  Jahn, Bernhard ^a   Langfelder, Kim ^b   Schneider, Ulrike ^a   Schindel, Christine ^a   Brakhage, Axel A ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN D; CHLOROQUINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR KILLING; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL FUSION; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MONOCYTES; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOMES;

ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; MURINAE;

EID: 18744386931     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-5822.2002.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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