Vitellogenins increase stress resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans after Photorhabdus luminescens infection depending on the steroid-signaling pathway

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 8-9, 2013, Pages 569-578

  Fischer, Malaika ^a   Regitz, Charlotte ^a   Kull, Rebecca ^a   Boll, Michael ^a   Wenzel, Uwe ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidative defense; Intestinal innate immunity; Lipid transport; Pathogen resistance; Steroidal signaling; Vitellogenins

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOCHROME P450; STEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 12; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

ANTIOXIDATIVE DEFENSE; INTESTINAL INNATE IMMUNITY; LIPID TRANSPORT; PATHOGEN RESISTANCE; STEROIDAL-SIGNALING; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; PHOTORHABDUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; VITELLOGENINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

EID: 84880628259     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2013.05.002     Document Type: Article

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