The molecular characterization of the major polar tube protein gene from Encephalitozoon hellem, a microsporidian parasite of humans

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-236

  Keohane, Elaine M ^a,b   Orr, George A ^a   Zhang, Hong Shan ^a   Takvorian, Peter M ^c   Cali, Ann ^c   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a   Wittner, Murray ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon; Microsporidia; Polar filament; Polar tube; Polar tube protein; Polar tube protein gene

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENCEPHALITOZOON; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032146558     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00071-1     Document Type: Article

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