Conditional stat1 ablation reveals the importance of interferon signaling for immunity to Listeria monocytogenes infection

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kernbauer, Elisabeth ^a   Maier, Verena ^a   Stoiber, Dagmar ^b,c   Strobl, Birgit ^d   Schneckenleithner, Christine ^d   Sexl, Veronika ^d   Reichart, Ursula ^d   Reizis, Boris ^e   Kalinke, Ulrich ^f   Jamieson, Amanda ^a   Müller, Mathias ^d   Decker, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 3; RANTES; STAT1 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; STAT1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGE; MEMORY CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; IMMUNOLOGY; LISTERIOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUS;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERFERON TYPE I; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84864047369     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002763     Document Type: Article

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