A cathepsin L-like cysteine protease is conserved among Babesia equi isolates

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 295-300

  Holman, Patricia J ^a   Hsieh, Marlene M ^a,b   Nix, Jessica L ^a   Bendele, Kylie G ^a   Wagner, Gerald G ^a   Ball, Judith M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Babesia equi; Cathepsin L; Cysteine protease; E64; E64d; Inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CATHEPSIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BABESIA EQUI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME METABOLISM; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIASIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; PLASMODIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA ANNULATA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA PARVA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VACCINATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BABESIA; BABESIOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATHEPSINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ERYTHROCYTES; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BABESIA; BABESIA EQUI; FUNGI; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036156881     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00423-6     Document Type: Article

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