Nematode peptides with host-directed anti-inflammatory activity rescue caenorhabditis elegans from a Burkholderia pseudomallei infection

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2016, Pages

  Lim, Mei Perng ^a   Firdaus Raih, Mohd ^a   Nathan, Sheila ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b MALAYSIA GENOME INSTITUTE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; B. pseudomallei; C. elegans; Immunomodulator

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL VIABILITY ASSAY; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELIOIDOSIS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84993969573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01436     Document Type: Article

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