New insights into molecular Ehrlichia chaffeensis-host interactions

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 337-345

  Wakeel, Abdul ^a   Zhu, Bing ^a   Yu, Xue jie ^a,b   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

Ankyrin proteins; Effector; Ehrlichia; Host pathogen interaction; Tandem repeat proteins

Indexed keywords

ANK200 PROTEIN; ANKYRIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 15; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 2; POLYCOMB GROUP RING FINGER 5; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE FYN; RING FINGER PROTEIN; TRP120 PROTEIN; TRP32 PROTEIN; TRP47 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALU SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; EFFECTOR CELL; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HOST CELL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EHRLICHIA; EHRLICHIA CHAFFEENSIS;

EID: 77950860206     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.01.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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