New tick defensin isoform and antimicrobial gene expression in response to Rickettsia montanensis challenge

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1973-1983

  Ceraul, Shane M ^a   Dreher Lesnick, Sheila M ^a   Gillespie, Joseph J ^a,b   Rahman, M Sayeedur ^a   Azad, Abdu F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; DEFENSIN 1; DEFENSIN 2; ISOPROTEIN; LYSOZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA MONTANENSIS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TICK; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DEFENSINS; DERMACENTOR; DNA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMIDASE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 34147138325     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01815-06     Document Type: Article

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