The Evolutionarily Conserved Mediator Subunit MDT-15/MED15 Links Protective Innate Immune Responses and Xenobiotic Detoxification

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Pukkila Worley, Read ^a,b   Feinbaum, Rhonda L ^a,b   McEwan, Deborah L ^a,b   Conery, Annie L ^a,b   Ausubel, Frederick M ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC105 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MDT-15 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENETICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901666130     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004143     Document Type: Article

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