Cloning and functional expression of a Boophilus microplus cathepsin L-like enzyme

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1017-1026

  Renard, Gaby ^a   Garcia, José F ^a   Cardoso, Felipe C ^a   Richter, Marc F ^a   Sakanari, Judy A ^b   Ozaki, Luiz S ^a   Termignoni, Carlos ^a   Masuda, Aoi ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boophilus microplus; Cathepsin L; cDNA; Cysteine proteinase; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CATHEPSIN; CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; ENZYME; ENZYME PRECURSOR; GELATIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACIDITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; DNA VECTOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; HYDROLYSIS; LARVA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CATHEPSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME PRECURSORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TICKS;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0033808652     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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