Role for β-catenin and HOX transcription factors in Caenorhabditis elegans and mammalian host epithelial-pathogen interactions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 17469-17474

  Irazoqui, Javier E ^a   Ng, Aylwin ^a   Xavier, Ramnik J ^a   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeobox protein; Host pathogen interactions; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN EGL 5; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN PMK 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 56249116997     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809527105     Document Type: Article

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