Genomic clusters, putative pathogen recognition molecules, and antimicrobial genes are induced by infection of C. elegans with M. nematophilum

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1005-1016

  O'Rourke, Delia ^a   Baban, Dilair ^b   Demidova, Maria ^a   Mott, Richard ^c   Hodgkin, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; LYSOZYME; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL SWELLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA PRIMERS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MICROBACTERIUM NEMATOPHILUM; NEMATODA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33746727711     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.50823006     Document Type: Article

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