Purification and cloning of the salivary nitrophorin from the hemipteran Cimex lectularius

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2659-2664

  Valenzuela, Jesus G ^a   Ribeiro, José M C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bedbug; cDNA synthesis; Cimex lectularius; Haematophagy; Haemostasis; Nitric oxide; Nitrophorin; Polymerase chain reaction; Saliva; Salivary protein purification; Vasodilator

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APOPROTEIN; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INOSITOL PHOSPHATASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPHORIN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEDBUGS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITRIC OXIDE; RHODNIUS; SALIVA; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

CIMEX LECTULARIUS; HEMIPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; RHODNIUS PROLIXUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032170312     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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