Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission

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

Volumn 106, Issue 29, 2009, Pages 12133-12138

  Wang, Jingwen ^a   Wu, Yineng ^a   Yang, Guangxiao ^a   Aksoy, Serap ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glossina; Parasitism; Tolerance; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN LB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IMMUNITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITISM; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PGRP IB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLY; WIGGLESWORTHIA GLOSSINIDIA;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT PROTEINS; PARASITES; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA; TSETSE FLIES; WIGGLESWORTHIA;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); WIGGLESWORTHIA;

EID: 67749098054     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901226106     Document Type: Article

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