Bacterial autolysins trim cell surface peptidoglycan to prevent detection by the drosophila innate immune system

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Atilano, Magda Luciana ^a,b   Pereira, Pedro Matos ^a   Vaz, Filipa ^a   Catalão, Maria João ^a   Reed, Patricia ^a   Grilo, Inês Ramos ^a   Sobral, Rita Gonçalves ^c   Ligoxygakis, Petros ^b   Pinho, Mariana Gomes ^a   Filipe, Sérgio Raposo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AUTOLYSIN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSAMINIDASE; MUTANOLYSIN MURAMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; N ACETYLMURAMOYLALANINE AMIDASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; HOST; IMMUNE EVASION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT IMMUNITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURVIVAL; ZYMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROLYSIS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; N-ACETYLMURAMOYL-L-ALANINE AMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84898467936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02277     Document Type: Article

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