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Challenge of Drosophila melanogaster with Cryptococcus neoformans and role of the innate immune response.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Apr 2004
Apidianakis Yiorgos, Rahme Laurence G, Heitman Joseph, Ausubel Frederick M, Calderwood Stephen B, Mylonakis Eleftherios
Abstract excerpt
We found that the ingestion of Cryptococcus neoformans by Drosophila melanogaster resulted in the death of the fly but that the ingestion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or the nonpathogenic Cryptococcus kuetzingii or Cryptococcus laurentii did not. The C. neoformans protein kinase A and RAS signal t...
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