Beta interferon-mediated activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription protein 1 interferes with Rickettsia conorii replication in human endothelial cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3733-3743

  Colonne, Punsiri M ^a   Eremeeva, Marina E ^b   Sahni, Sanjeev K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 9; JANUS KINASE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SERINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT1 PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TYROSINE;

ARTICLE; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; TROPISM; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL LINE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-7; INTERFERON-BETA; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3, GAMMA SUBUNIT; JANUS KINASES; MICROVESSELS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 80052309762     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05008-11     Document Type: Article

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