Entamoeba lysyl-tRNA synthetase contains a cytokine-like domain with chemokine activity towards human endothelial cells.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Manuel Castro de Moura (लेखक), Francesc Miro (लेखक), Jung Min Han (लेखक), Sunghoon Kim (लेखक), Antonio Celada (लेखक), Lluís Ribas de Pouplana (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: Connect to this object online.

Immunological pressure encountered by protozoan parasites drives the selection of strategies to modulate or avoid the immune responses of their hosts. Here we show that the parasite Entamoeba histolytica has evolved a chemokine that mimics the sequence, structure, and function of the human cytokine...