Molecular cloning, characterization and overexpression of two distinct cysteine protease cDNAs from Leishmania donovani chagasi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 247-267

  Omara Opyene, Archangel Levi ^a   Gedamu, Lashitew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amastigote specific; cDNA; Cysteine proteases; Leishmania donovani chagasi; Overexpression; Promastigote specific

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFECTION;

CRICETINAE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PIFANOI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031437260     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00158-8     Document Type: Article

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