Thioester-containing proteins of the tick Ixodes ricinus: Gene expression, response to microbial challenge and their role in phagocytosis of the yeast Candida albicans

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-64

  Urbanová, Veronika ^a   Šíma, Radek ^a   Šauman, Ivo ^b   Hajdušek, Ondřej ^a   Kopáček, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Complement; Innate immunity; Phagocytosis; Thioester containing proteins; Tick Ixodes ricinus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; THIOESTER; THIOESTER CONTAINING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTHROPOD PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BLOOD CELL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; IRA2M1 GENE; IRA2M2 GENE; IRA2M3 GENE; IRC3 1 GENE; IRC3 2 GENE; IRC3 3 GENE; IRMCR1 GENE; IRMCR2 GENE; IRTEP GENE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; OVARY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALIVARY GLAND; TEP GENE; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOLOGY; IXODES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HEMOLYMPH; IXODES; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84907841569     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: 18790089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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