Identification of the Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi as a New Target of the IFNγ-Inducible IRG Resistance System

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  da Fonseca Ferreira da Silva, Marialice ^a   Springer Frauenhoff, Helen Maria ^a   Bohne, Wolfgang ^b   Howard, Jonathan C ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IMMUNITY RELATED GTPASE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL VIABILITY ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSPORIDIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VACUOLE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PHAGOSOME;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FIBROBLASTS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NECROSIS; PHAGOSOMES; VACUOLES;

EID: 84908330381     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004449     Document Type: Article

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