Differential expression of microRNAs in Francisella tularensis-infected human macrophages: MiR-155-dependent downregulation of MyD88 inhibits the inflammatory response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Bandyopadhyay, Sarmistha ^a,b,c   Long, Matthew E ^a   Allen, Lee Ann H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIVE VACCINE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 155; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; BACTERIAL VACCINE; INOSITOL-POLYPHOSPHATE 5-PHOSPHATASE; LIGAND; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MIRN146 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN155 MICRORNA, HUMAN; PHOSPHATASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; CYTOSOL; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; KINETICS; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TULAREMIA; ADULT; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DOWN-REGULATION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIGANDS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MACROPHAGES; MICRORNAS; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84907803204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109525     Document Type: Article

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