Cloning and sequence analysis of a highly polymorphic Cryptosporidium parvum gene encoding a 60-kilodalton glycoprotein and characterization of its 15- and 45-kilodalton zoite surface antigen products

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 4117-4134

  Strong, William B ^a,b   Gut, Jiri ^a,b   Nelson, Richard G ^a,b,c  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033946226     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.7.4117-4134.2000     Document Type: Article

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