Fasciola hepatica: Characterization and cloning of the major cathepsin B protease secreted by newly excysted juvenile liver fluke

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-94

  Wilson, Lachlan R ^a   Good, Robert T ^a   Panaccio, Michael ^a   Wijffels, Gene L ^a,d   Sandeman, R Mark ^b   Spithill, Terry W ^c  

^a VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME RELEASE; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031879529     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4234     Document Type: Article

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