A drug-sensitive genetic network masks fungi from the immune system

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 328-339

  Wheeler, Robert T ^a   Fink, Gerald R ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETA GLUCAN; CASPOFUNGIN; CYTOKINE; CYCLOPEPTIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS MUTANT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MACROPHAGE; MASKING; MOUSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOME; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BETA-GLUCANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL WALL; CELLS, CULTURED; GENOME, FUNGAL; IMMUNITY; MACROPHAGES; MICE; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33646242974     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020035     Document Type: Article

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