Regulation of Anti-Plasmodium Immunity by a LITAF-like Transcription Factor in the Malaria Vector Anopheles gambiae

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Smith, Ryan C ^a   Eappen, Abraham G ^a,b   Radtke, Andrea J ^a   Jacobs Lorena, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SANARIA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE INDUCED TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868130502     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002965     Document Type: Article

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