Hyaluronic acid receptor CD44 deficiency is associated with decreased Cryptococcus neoformans brain infection

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 15298-15306

  Jong, Ambrose ^a   Wu, Chun Hua ^a   Gonzales Gomez, Ignacio ^b   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^c   Chang, Yun C ^c   Tseng, Hsiang Kuang ^d   Cho, Wen Long ^d   Huang, Sheng He ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING EFFECT; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYSTIC LESION; GLIAL CELLS; HUMAN BRAIN; HYALURONIC ACIDS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; KNOCK OUTS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MOUSE MODELS; NEOFORMANS; PATHOGENIC YEAST; SIMVASTATIN; WILD TYPES;

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ORGANIC ACIDS;

MAMMALS;

HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN RHAMM; SIMVASTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GLIA CELL; HYALURONIC ACID RECEPTOR CD44 DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID RAFT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROGLIA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIMVASTATIN; VIRULENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; MUS;

EID: 84860851651     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.353375     Document Type: Article

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