Overexpression of a single Leishmania major gene enhances parasite infectivity in vivo and in vitro

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1175-1190

  Reiling, Linda ^a,b   Chrobak, Mareike ^a   Schmetz, Christel ^a   Clos, Joachim ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HOST RANGE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS;

EID: 77952828769     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07130.x     Document Type: Article

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