Isolation and characterization of a cDNA clone encoding a thiol proteinase of Sarcocystis muris cyst mero' zoites (Apicomplexa)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 749-757

  Hansner, Thomas ^a   Freyer, Bernd ^a   Mehlhorn, Heinz ^b   Rüger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; THIOL PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GLYCOSYLATION; MEROZOITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOCYSTIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATHEPSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SARCOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032976473     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050626     Document Type: Article

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