Phenoloxidase Activity Acts as a Mosquito Innate Immune Response against Infection with Semliki Forest Virus

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Rodriguez Andres, Julio ^a,b   Rani, Seema ^a   Varjak, Margus ^c   Chase Topping, Margo E ^d   Beck, Markus H ^e   Ferguson, Mhairi C ^a   Schnettler, Esther ^a,b   Fragkoudis, Rennos ^a   Barry, Gerald ^a   Merits, Andres ^c   Fazakerley, John K ^a   Strand, Michael R ^e   Kohl, Alain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CENTRE FOR VIRUS RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGF1.0 PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZUME ACTIVITY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INNATE IMMUNITY; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; SURVIVAL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INSECT PROTEINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALPHAVIRUS; ARBOVIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RABBIT FIBROMA VIRUS; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; TOGAVIRIDAE;

EID: 84870785077     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002977     Document Type: Article

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