Cloning and molecular characterization of a cDNA from Blomia tropicalis homologous to dust mite group 3 allergens (trypsin-like proteases)

International Archives of Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 12-16

  Flores, Idhaliz ^a   Mora, Carlos ^b   Rivera, Elizabeth ^a   Donnelly, Robert ^c   Montealegre, Federico ^a  

^a PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergen; Blomia tropicalis; CDNA; House dust mite; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; HISTIDINE; HOUSE DUST ALLERGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPTASE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOMIA TROPICALIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMATOPHAGOIDES PTERONYSSINUS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; DNA SCREENING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DUST; MITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPSIN;

EID: 0037270296     PISSN: 10182438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000068375     Document Type: Article

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