Characterisation of Tc-cpl-1, a cathepsin L-like cysteine protease from Toxocara canis infective larvae

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Loukas, Alex ^a   Selzer, Paul M ^b   Maizels, Rick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active site; Cathepsin B; Cathepsin L; Cysteine protease; Nematode; Serodiagnosis; Structural alignment; Toxocara canis

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LARVA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS;

EID: 0032077296     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00245-4     Document Type: Article

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