Plasmodium gallinaceum: Use of antisera to degenerate synthetic peptides derived from the active site of protozoal chitinases to characterize an ookinete-specific chitinase

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-202

  Vinetz, Joseph M ^a   Kaslow, David C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM;

EID: 0031691077     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4322     Document Type: Article

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