Low-Volume Toolbox for the Discovery of Immunosuppressive Fungal Secondary Metabolites

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Berthier, Erwin ^a   Lim, Fang Yun ^a   Deng, Qing ^a   Guo, Chun Jun ^b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^c   Wang, Clay C C ^b   Rindy, Julie ^a   Beebe, David J ^a   Huttenlocher, Anna ^a   Keller, Nancy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCROCIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS SPORE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANTHRACENES; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DROSOPHILA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; METABOLOME; MICROFLUIDICS; NEUTROPHILS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; ZEBRAFISH;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DANIO RERIO; FUNGI;

EID: 84876819014     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003289     Document Type: Article

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