Simultaneous transcriptional profiling of Leishmania major and its murine macrophage host cell reveals insights into host-pathogen interactions

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Dillon, Laura A L ^a   Suresh, Rahul ^a   Okrah, Kwame ^a   Corrada Bravo, Hector ^a,b   Mosser, David M ^a   El Sayed, Najib M ^a,c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Host pathogen interactions; Leishmania; Macrophage; Mouse; RNA seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BNIP3; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BCL2A1B GENE; BNIP3 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCOLYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIPID METABOLISM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTO ONCOGENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MACROPHAGES; MICE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84952051809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2237-2     Document Type: Article

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