An ER-directed transcriptional response to unfolded protein stress in the absence of conserved sensor-transducer proteins in Giardia lamblia

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 754-771

  Spycher, Cornelia ^a   Herman, Emily K ^b   Morf, Laura ^a,d   Qi, Weihong ^c   Rehrauer, Hubert ^c   Aquino Fournier, Catharine ^c   Dacks, Joel B ^b   Hehl, Adrian B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS CENTER ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING IMMUNOGLOBULIN PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLYCEROL KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE 3; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE 4; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE 5; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SENSOR PROTEIN; TRANSDUCER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIP GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DERLIN LIKE PROTEIN GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIAL STRESS RESPONSE ELEMENT; GLYCEROL KINASE GENE; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IRE1 DOMAIN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PERK DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE 1 GENE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOZOITE; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNFOLDED PROTEIN RESPONSE;

EID: 84877801543     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12218     Document Type: Article

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