Tsetse EP protein protects the fly midgut from trypanosome establishment

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Haines, Lee R ^a   Lehane, Stella M ^a   Pearson, Terry W ^b   Lehane, Michael J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN EP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOSSINA; GLOSSINA MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALPALIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STARVATION; STOMACH PROTECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TSETSE FLY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALPALIS PALPALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STARVATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

EID: 77950441667     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000793     Document Type: Article

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