Discrimination of cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase of Trypanosoma cruzi, and mammalian cathepsins B and L, by a pH-inducible fluorogenic substrate of trypanosomal cysteine proteinases

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 259, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 275-280

  Serveau, Carole ^a   Lalmanach, Gilles ^a   Hirata, Isaura ^b   Scharfstein, Julio ^b   Juliano, Maria A ^b   Gauthier, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cruzipain; Cysteine proteinase; Enzyme specificity

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DANSYL COMPOUNDS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; PEPTIDES; RATS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0033555294     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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