Cryptococcus neoformans-Derived Microvesicles Enhance the Pathogenesis of Fungal Brain Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Sheng He ^a   Wu, Chun Hua ^a   Chang, Yun C ^b   Kwon Chung, Kyung J ^b   Brown, Robert J ^a   Jong, Ambrose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN 14 3 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INFECTION; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS DERIVED MICROVESICLES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID RAFT; MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL FUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 84868709756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048570     Document Type: Article

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