Developmental expression of a tandemly repeated, glycine- and serine- rich spore wall protein in the microsporidian pathogen Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 2268-2275

  Bohne, Wolfgang ^a,b   Ferguson, David J P ^c   Kohler, Karoline ^b   Gross, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; SERINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA LIBRARY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPOROGENESIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCINE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HYBRIDOMAS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE; SPORES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034117340     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.4.2268-2275.2000     Document Type: Article

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