Microbial metalloproteinases mediate sensing of invading pathogens and activate innate immune responses in the lepidopteran model host Galleria mellonella

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-183

  Altincicek, Boran ^a   Linder, Monica ^a   Linder, Dietmar ^a   Preissner, Klaus T ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GALLERIMYCIN; LYSOZYME; METALLOPROTEINASE; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; THERMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODEL; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENE; HEMOLYMPH; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOTH; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THERMOLYSIN;

EID: 33845974905     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01385-06     Document Type: Article

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