Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of two novel Tolls (LvToll2 and LvToll3) and three putative Spätzle-like Toll ligands (LvSpz1-3) from Litopenaeus vannamei

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 359-371

  Wang, Pei Hui ^a   Liang, Jian Ping ^a   Gu, Zhi Hua ^a   Wan, Ding Hui ^a   Weng, Shao Ping ^a   Yu, Xiao Qiang ^b   He, Jian Guo ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; Litopenaeus vannamei; Sp tzle; Toll; Vibrio alginolyticus; WSSV

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LEUCINE; PROTEIN; SPATZLE LIKE PROTEIN 1; SPATZLE LIKE PROTEIN 2; SPATZLE LIKE PROTEIN 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE GENE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA ATTACIN A; DROSOPHILA SCHNEIDER; EYE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GILL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT CELL; INTESTINE; LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI; LVSPZ1 GENE; LVSPZ3 GENE; LVTOLL1 GENE; LVTOLL2 GENE; LVTOLL3 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHRIMP; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI; MAMMALIA; SHRIMP WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS;

EID: 80052625791     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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