An Effector Peptide Family Required for Drosophila Toll-Mediated Immunity

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Clemmons, Alexa W ^a   Lindsay, Scott A ^a   Wasserman, Steven A ^a  

^a SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEOME; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BOM GENE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CANDIDA GLABRATA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEOLYSIS; PROTEOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84929472728     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004876     Document Type: Article

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