Cattle tick Boophilus microplus salivary gland contains a thiol-activated metalloendopeptidase displaying kininase activity

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1439-1446

  Bastiani, Michele ^a   Hillebrand, Sandro ^a   Horn, Fabiana ^a   Kist, Tarso Benigno Ledur ^a   Guimarães, Jorge Almeida ^a   Termignoni, Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boophilus; Kininase; Thimet oligoendopeptidase; Tick salivary glands

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; KININASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; N (1 CARBOXY 3 PHENYLPROPYL)ALANYLALANYLPHENYLALANINE 4 AMINOBENZOATO; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; THIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DITHIOTHREITOL; DIVALENT CATION; TISSUE EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK; ANIMAL; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GUINEA PIG; ILEUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACARI; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

ANIMALS; BRADYKININ; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CATTLE; DITHIOTHREITOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GUINEA PIGS; HYDROLYSIS; ILEUM; KINETICS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; SALIVARY GLANDS; TICKS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 0036837502     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00064-4     Document Type: Article

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