The Schistosoma mansoni epidermal growth factor receptor homologue, SER, has tyrosine kinase activity and is localized in adult muscle

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Ramachandran, Hema ^a   Skelly, Patrick J ^a   Shoemaker, Charles B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

growth factor receptor homologue; Schistosoma mansoni; tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BACULOVIRIDAE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 0030566756     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02731-4     Document Type: Article

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