Challenge of Drosophila melanogaster with Cryptococcus neoformans and role of the innate immune response

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 413-419

  Apidianakis, Yiorgos ^a,b   Rahme, Laurence G ^a,b   Heitman, Joseph ^d   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,c   Calderwood, Stephen B ^a,c   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Shriners Burns Institute   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; PROTEIN KINASE A KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; RAS85D PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SPATZLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CRYPTOCOCCUS ALBIDUS VAR. KUETZINGII; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 3342963000     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.2.413-419.2004     Document Type: Article

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