Bacterial infection activates the immune system response and dysregulates microRNA expression in honey bees

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 474-482

  Lourenço, Anete P ^a   Guidugli Lazzarini, Karina R ^a   Freitas, Flávia C P ^a   Bitondi, Márcia M G ^a   Simões, Zilá L P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Apis mellifera; KappaB sites; MiRNA; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFERRIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICRORNAS; NF-KAPPA B; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFERRIN;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 84876325847     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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