Anti-fungal innate immunity in C. elegans is enhanced by evolutionary diversification of antimicrobial peptides

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Pujol, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Zugasti, Olivier ^a,b,c   Wong, Daniel ^a,b,c   Couillault, Carole ^a,b,c   Kurz, C Léopold ^a,b,c   Schulenburg, Hinrich ^d   Ewbank, Jonathan J ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ELT 3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; ELT-3 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; NGF LIKE PROTEASE; NGF-LIKE PROTEASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHYLOGENY; ANIMAL; DEUTEROMYCETES; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 48249137383     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000105     Document Type: Article

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