Gene discovery in the freshwater fish parasite Trypanosoma carassii: Identification of trans-sialidase-like and mucin-like genes

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 7140-7144

  Agüero, Fernán ^a   Campo, Vanina ^a   Cremona, Laura ^a,c   Jäger, Adriana ^a   Di Noia, Javier M ^a,d   Overath, Peter ^b   Sánchez, Daniel O ^a   Frasch, Alberto Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FRESH WATER; MUCIN; POLYADENYLATED RNA; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CARASSII; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; NEURAMINIDASE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 0036893446     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.7140-7144.2002     Document Type: Article

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