Publication Date:
2006-08-05
Description:
Immunity-related p47 guanosine triphosphatases (IRG) play a role in defense against intracellular pathogens. We found that the murine Irgm1 (LRG-47) guanosine triphosphatase induced autophagy and generated large autolysosomal organelles as a mechanism for the elimination of intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We also identified a function for a human IRG protein in the control of intracellular pathogens and report that the human Irgm1 ortholog, IRGM, plays a role in autophagy and in the reduction of intracellular bacillary load.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Singh, Sudha B -- Davis, Alexander S -- Taylor, Gregory A -- Deretic, Vojo -- AI42999/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI45148/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI57831/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI057831/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 AI007538/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Sep 8;313(5792):1438-41. Epub 2006 Aug 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16888103" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Autophagy
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Cell Line
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Cytosol/metabolism
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GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics/*physiology
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HeLa Cells
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Humans
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Interferon-gamma/immunology
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Lysosomes/metabolism/microbiology/ultrastructure
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Macrophages/*immunology/*microbiology
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Mice
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Microbial Viability
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Microtubule-Associated Proteins/metabolism
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Mycobacterium bovis/*immunology/physiology
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Phagosomes/metabolism/microbiology/*ultrastructure
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RNA, Small Interfering
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Transfection
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Vacuoles/metabolism/ultrastructure
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
