Nuclear translocated Ehrlichia chaffeensis ankyrin protein interacts with a specific adenine-rich motif of host promoter and intronic Alu elements

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4243-4255

  Zhu, Bing ^a   Nethery, Kimberly A ^a   Kuriakose, Jeeba A ^a   Wakeel, Abdul ^a   Zhang, Xiaofeng ^a   McBride, Jere W ^a,b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ANKYRIN; CD48 ANTIGEN; STAT1 PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALU SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTRON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TANDEM REPEAT; UPREGULATION;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANKYRINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 70349417835     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00376-09     Document Type: Article

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