The Histoplasma capsulatum vacuolar ATPase is required for iron homeostasis, intracellular replication in macrophages and virulence in a murine model of histoplasmosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-139

  Hilty, Jeremy ^a   Smulian, A George ^a,b   Newman, Simon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BAFILOMYCIN; IRON; PROTEIN VMA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER;

ANIMALS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IRON; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SIDEROPHORES; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; MURINAE;

EID: 51649086978     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06395.x     Document Type: Article

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