A two-gene balance regulates Salmonella typhimurium tolerance in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
Journal article
Authors | Marsh, Elizabeth K, van den Berg, Maaike C W and May, Robin C |
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Abstract | Lysozymes are antimicrobial enzymes that perform a critical role in resisting infection in a wide-range of eukaryotes. However, using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model host we now demonstrate that deletion of the protist type lysozyme LYS-7 renders animals susceptible to killing by the fatal fungal human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, but, remarkably, enhances tolerance to the enteric bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium. This trade-off in immunological susceptibility in C. elegans is further mediated by the reciprocal activity of lys-7 and the tyrosine kinase abl-1. Together this implies a greater complexity in C. elegans innate immune function than previously thought. |
Keywords | Innate Immunity |
Year | 2011 |
Journal | PLos ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016839 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623839 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | |
hdl:10545/623839 | |
Publication dates | 02 Mar 2011 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 12 Jun 2019, 10:22 |
Accepted | 03 Jan 2011 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States |
Contributors | University of Birmingham |
File | File Access Level Open |
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https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/95138/a-two-gene-balance-regulates-salmonella-typhimurium-tolerance-in-the-nematode-caenorhabditis-elegans
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