Drosophila Immunity: A Large-Scale In Vivo RNAi Screen Identifies Five Serine Proteases Required for Toll Activation

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 808-813

  Kambris, Zakaria ^a   Brun, Sylvain ^a   Jang, In Hwan ^b   Nam, Hyuck Jin ^b   Romeo, Yves ^a   Takahashi, Kuniaki ^c   Lee, Won Jae ^b   Ueda, Ryu ^c   Lemaitre, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

CELLIMMUNO; DEVBIO; SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SPATZLE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DROSOPHILA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33646037067     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.03.020     Document Type: Article

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