The major surface-metalloprotease of the parasitic protozoan, Leishmania, protects against antimicrobial peptide-induced apoptotic killing

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1484-1497

  Kulkarni, Manjusha M ^a   McMaster, W Robert ^b   Kamysz, Elzbieta ^c   Kamysz, Wojciech ^d   Engman, David M ^e   McGwire, Bradford S ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DEFENSIN; CASPASE 2; CASPASE 7; CATHELICIDIN; MAGAININ DERIVATIVE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEXIGANAN ACETATE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEISHMANIA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTOZOON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; APOPTOSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA;

EID: 33750735379     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05459.x     Document Type: Article

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