Brucella requires a functional Type IV secretion system to elicit innate immune responses in mice

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1851-1869

  Roux, Christelle M ^a   Rolán, Hortensia G ^a   Santos, Renato L ^a,b   Beremand, Phillip D ^c   Thomas, Terry L ^c   Adams, L Garry ^d   Tsolis, Renée M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERFERON; INTERFERON RECEPTOR; VIRB PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INOCULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN CELL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA MELITENSIS; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INTERFERONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEINS; SPLEEN;

BRUCELLA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 34250730896     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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