Cathepsin B-like cysteine proteinase-deficient mutants of Leishmania mexicana

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-61

  Bart, Genevieve ^a   Frame, Mhairi J ^b   Carter, Roderick ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^b   Mottram, Jeremy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cathepsin B; Cysteine protease; Leishmania; Mutant; Transfection; Trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFECTION; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSIN B; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFECTION; VIRULENCE;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030745338     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00072-8     Document Type: Article

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