Identification of Leishmania major cysteine proteinases as targets of the immune response in humans

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-43

  Rafati, Sima ^a   Salmanian, Ali Hatef ^b   Hashemi, Katayon ^a   Schaff, Cedric ^c   Belli, Sabina ^d   Fasel, Nicolas ^c  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteinases; Human immunoreactivities; Leishmania major

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CATHEPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATHEPSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS MEXICANA;

EID: 0035089822     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00377-7     Document Type: Article

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