A conserved Toll-like receptor is required for Caenorhabditis elegans innate immunity

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-109

  Tenor, Jennifer L ^a   Aballay, Alejandro ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFENSIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 16.41; PROTEIN ABF 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SPECIES INVASION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHARYNX; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 37849004968     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7401104     Document Type: Article

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