Molecular cloning and characterization of Ac-mep-1, a developmentally regulated gut luminal metalloendopeptidase from adult Ancylostoma caninum hookworms

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 107-116

  Jones, Brian F ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma caninum; Hookworm; Metalloprotease

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOPROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MICROVILLUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ZINC;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

EID: 0036139151     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00409-1     Document Type: Article

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