Hydrolytic enzymes of Psoroptes cuniculi (Delafond)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-32

  Nisbet, Alasdair J ^a   Billingsley, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cathepsin D; Mite; Psoroptes ovis; Sheep scab

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEINASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CATHEPSIN D; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C8; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROLASE; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; PEPSTATIN; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYMOLOGY; HEATING; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MITE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEATING; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; MITES; PEPTIDES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RABBITS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BOVINAE; HEXAPODA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; PSOROPTES CUNICULI; PSOROPTES OVIS;

EID: 0033063150     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00100-3     Document Type: Article

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