TLR-independent control of innate immunity in Caenorhabditis elegans by the TIR domain adaptor protein TIR-1, an ortholog of human SARM

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 488-494

  Couillault, Carole ^a   Pujol, Nathalie ^a   Reboul, Jérôme ^a   Sabatier, Laurence ^b   Guichou, Jean François ^a   Kohara, Yuji ^c   Ewbank, Jonathan J ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RAB PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MYCOSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

EID: 2442664007     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1060     Document Type: Article

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