Fine pathogen discrimination within the APL1 gene family protects Anopheles gambiae against human and rodent malaria species

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Mitri, Christian ^a   Jacques, Jean Claude ^a   Thiery, Isabelle ^a   Riehle, Michelle M ^b   Xu, Jiannong ^b,d   Bischoff, Emmanuel ^a   Morlais, Isabelle ^c   Nsango, Sandrine E ^c   Vernick, Kenneth D ^a,b   Bourgouin, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Cameroon   (Cameroon)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APL1A PROTEIN; APL1B PROTEIN; APL1C PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APL 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; APL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; GAMBIF1 PROTEIN, ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI INFECTION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PLASMODIUM YOELII INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALARIA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENICITY;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM PARASITES; PLASMODIUM YOELII; POSIBACTERIA; RODENTIA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALARIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 70349661228     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000576     Document Type: Article

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