Caspar-like gene depletion reduces leishmania infection in sand fly host Lutzomyia longipalpis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 12985-12993

  Telleria, Erich L ^a   Sant'Anna, Maurício R V ^c   Ortigão Farias, João R ^a   Pitaluga, André N ^a   Dillon, Viv M ^b   Bates, Paul A ^c   Traub Csekö, Yara M ^a   Dillon, Rod J ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; BACTERIAL SPECIES; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEMS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; PARASITE-; RNA INTERFERENCE; UP-REGULATION;

BLOOD; GENES; IMMUNOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RNA;

SAND;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CASPAR LIKE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; LUTZOMYIA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, INSECT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; PHYLOGENY; PSYCHODIDAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84859768521     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.331561     Document Type: Article

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