Proteolytic activity of the Gymnohynchus gigas plerocercoid: Purification and properties of a collagenase from the crude extract

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 64-70

  Vazquez Lopez C ^a   De Armas Serra, C ^a   Gimenez Pardo C ^a   Rodriguez Caabeiro F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CESTODE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; ANIMAL; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; FISH; GLYCOSYLATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARASITOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; COLLAGENASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FISHES; GLYCOSYLATION; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0032587375     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050508     Document Type: Article

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