Aspergillus Galactosaminogalactan Mediates Adherence to Host Constituents and Conceals Hyphal β-Glucan from the Immune System

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Gravelat, Fabrice N ^a   Beauvais, Anne ^b   Liu, Hong ^c   Lee, Mark J ^a   Snarr, Brendan D ^a   Chen, Dan ^d   Xu, Wenjie ^e   Kravtsov, Ilia ^a   Hoareau, Christopher M Q ^a   Vanier, Ghyslaine ^a   Urb, Mirjam ^a   Campoli, Paolo ^a   Al Abdallah, Qusai ^a   Lehoux, Melanie ^a   Chabot, Josée C ^a   Ouimet, Marie Claude ^a   Baptista, Stefanie D ^a   Fritz, Jörg H ^a   Nierman, William C ^d   Latgé, Jean Paul ^b   Mitchell, Aaron P ^e   Filler, Scott G ^c,f   Fontaine, Thierry ^b   Sheppard, Donald C ^a   more..

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d J Craig Ventker Institute   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; CORTISONE ACETATE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DECTIN 1; GALACTOSAMINOGALACTAN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NIKKOMYCIN X; POLYSACCHARIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZYMOSAN; BETA GLUCAN; EPIMERASE; FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PNEUMONIA; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE CULTURE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODEL; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BETA-GLUCANS; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPHAE; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MICE; POLYSACCHARIDES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84883402608     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003575     Document Type: Article

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