Turning Up the Heat: Inflammasome Activation by Fungal Pathogens

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Tavares, Aldo Henrique ^a   Bürgel, Pedro Henrique ^a   Bocca, Anamélia Lorenzetti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN SIGNALING PROTEIN; CRYOPYRIN; DECTIN 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INFLAMMASOME; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; LECTIN RECEPTOR; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING OLIGOMERIZATION DOMAIN LIKE RECEPTOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID INDUCIBLE PROTEIN I; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; CARRIER PROTEIN; NLRP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CROSS PRESENTATION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MORPHOGENESIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; FUNGUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMASOMES; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; MACROPHAGES; NLR FAMILY, PYRIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING 3 PROTEIN;

EID: 84938782289     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004948     Document Type: Article

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