Trypanosoma cruzi uses a 45-kDA mucin for adhesion to mammalian cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 290, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-34

  Turner, Corey W ^a   Lima, Maria F ^a   Villalta, Fernando ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIGAND; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY B5; MUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPIMASTIGOTE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HYBRIDOMA CELL CULTURE; MAMMAL CELL; MICROBIAL ADHESION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SUPERNATANT; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0036291371     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.6189     Document Type: Article

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