Copper at the Front Line of the Host-Pathogen Battle

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Festa, Richard A ^a   Thiele, Dennis J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL LEVEL; CERULOPLASMIN BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER DEFICIENCY; COPPER METABOLISM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COPPER; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MYCOSES;

EID: 84866943611     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002887     Document Type: Article

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