Lack of effective anti-apoptotic activities restricts growth of Parachlamydiaceae in insect cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sixt, Barbara S ^a   Hiess, Birgit ^a   König, Lena ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL GROWTH; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HOST RANGE; HOST RESISTANCE; INSECT CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROGENY; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; SYMBIONT; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PROTOZOA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS;

CASPASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIALES; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855507378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029565     Document Type: Article

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