The Epigenetic Regulator G9a Mediates Tolerance to RNA Virus Infection in Drosophila

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Merkling, Sarah H ^a   Bronkhorst, Alfred W ^a   Kramer, Jamie M ^b,c   Overheul, Gijs J ^a   Schenck, Annette ^b   Van Rij, Ronald P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE G9A; JANUS KINASE; STAT PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; RNA VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

RNA VIRUSES;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84929501322     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004692     Document Type: Article

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