Ferah Budak:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7625-9148
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: Writing – original draft
Salih Haldun Bal: Role: InvestigationRole: Methodology
Gulcin Tezcan: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Emin Halis Akalın: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Writing
– review & editing
Abdullah Yılmaz: Role: Methodology
Pınar Hız: Role: Methodology
Haluk Barbaros Oral: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Roy Martin Roop II: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
13
June
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0198659
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
[2
]
Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
[3
]
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine,
Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
[4
]
Department of Immunology, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul
University, Istanbul, Turkey
East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-00800
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198659
PMC ID: 5999269
PubMed ID: 29897958
SO-VID: 35a586ed-885e-4ce1-9b2d-470237d6004f
Copyright © © 2018 Budak et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004410, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu;
Award ID: SBAG-111S183
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7625-9148
Ferah Budak
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004410, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu;
Award ID: SBAG-111S183
Award Recipient
:
Haluk Barbaros Oral
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004410, Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu;
Award ID: SBAG-111S183
Award Recipient
:
Emin Halis Akalın
Funded by: None
Award Recipient
:
Salih Haldun Bal
Funded by: None
Award Recipient
:
Gulcin Tezcan
Funded by: None
Award Recipient
:
Abdullah Yılmaz
Funded by: None
Award Recipient
:
Pınar Hız
Ferah Budak, Haluk Barbaros Oral, Emin Halis Akalın were the authors who were supported
by a funder. They were supported by the the same grand. The name of the funder is:
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu. The link of the funder: (
https://www.tubitak.gov.tr). The grand number: SBAG-111S183. This funder (Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma
Kurumu) had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish,
or preparation of the manuscript. The rest of the authors (Salih Haldun Bal, Gulcin
Tezcan, Abdullah Yılmaz, Pınar Hız) were not supported by any funder.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Genetics
Subject:
Gene expression
Subject:
Gene regulation
Subject:
MicroRNAs
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
Subject:
Nucleic acids
Subject:
RNA
Subject:
Non-coding RNA
Subject:
MicroRNAs
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Bacterial Diseases
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Brucellosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Tropical Diseases
Subject:
Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Brucellosis
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
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Zoonoses
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Brucellosis
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Cell Biology
Subject:
Cellular Types
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Animal Cells
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Blood Cells
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White Blood Cells
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T Cells
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Cell Biology
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Cellular Types
Subject:
Animal Cells
Subject:
Immune Cells
Subject:
White Blood Cells
Subject:
T Cells
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
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Immune Cells
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White Blood Cells
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T Cells
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Immunology
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Immune Cells
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White Blood Cells
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T Cells
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Brucella
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Brucella
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Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Brucella
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Biology and life sciences
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Cell biology
Subject:
Signal transduction
Subject:
Cell signaling
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Signaling cascades
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MAPK signaling cascades
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Genetics
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Gene Expression
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Gene Regulation
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Biochemistry
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Proteins
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Contractile Proteins
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Actins
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Biochemistry
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Proteins
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Cytoskeletal Proteins
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Actins
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Biology and Life Sciences
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Cell Biology
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Cellular Structures and Organelles
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Cytoskeleton