Cell death paradigms in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Parandhaman, Dinesh Kumar ^a,b   Narayanan, Sujatha ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autophagy; Extrinsic pathway; Intrinsic pathway; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Pyroptosis

Indexed keywords

3 PHOSPHOINOSITIDE DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; DEATH DOMAIN RECEPTOR SIGNALING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE G; FAS LIGAND; GRANZYME B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BID; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN NOXA; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SECOND MITOCHONDRIAL ACTIVATOR OF CASPASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; CASPASE 3; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPHAGY; CELL DEATH; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOSTASIS; METAMORPHOSIS; NECROPTOSIS; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL AGING, CELL DEGENERATION AND CELL SURVIVAL; INNATE IMMUNITY; MITOPTOSIS; NECROSIS; NETOSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOSIS; PYRONECROSIS; PYROPTOSIS;

EID: 84898735229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00031     Document Type: Short Survey

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