New role for DCR-1/Dicer in caenorhabditis elegans innate immunity against the highly virulent bacterium bacillus thuringiensis DB27

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3942-3957

  Iatsenko, Igor ^a   Sinha, Amit ^a   Rödelsperger, Christian ^a   Sommer, Ralf J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MICRORNAS; MUTATION; RIBONUCLEASE III; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884401665     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00700-13     Document Type: Article

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