Structural and immunological characteristics of a 28-kilodalton cruzipain-like cysteine protease of Paragonimus westermani expressed in the definitive host stage

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 932-939

  Yun, D H ^a   Chung, J Y ^a   Chung, Y B ^a   Bahk, Y Y ^a   Kang, S Y ^a   Kong, Y ^a   Cho, S Y ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAGONIMUS WESTERMANI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; DOGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, HELMINTH; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARAGONIMIASIS; PARAGONIMUS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034458991     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.7.6.932-939.2000     Document Type: Article

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