A new factor in the Aedes aegypti immune response: CLSP2 modulates melanization

EMBO Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 938-943

  Shin, Sang Woon ^a   Zou, Zhen ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

IMD; prophenoloxidase; Toll

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROPHENOL OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLSP1 GENE; CSLP2 GENE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MELANIZATION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CATECHOL OXIDASE; ENZYME PRECURSORS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SERINE PROTEASES;

AEDES AEGYPTI; PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 80052274542     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2011.130     Document Type: Article

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