Hookworm aspartic protease, Na-APR-2, cleaves human hemoglobin and serum proteins in a host-specific fashion

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 484-494

  Williamson, Angela L ^a,c   Brindley, Paul J ^b   Abbenante, Giovanni ^a   Datu, Bennett J D ^c   Prociv, Paul ^a   Berry, Colin ^d   Girdwood, Karen ^d   Pritchard, David I ^e   Fairlie, David P ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^c   Zhan, Bin ^c   Loukas, Alex ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CATHEPSIN D; PEPSIN A;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXOCRINE GLAND; HOOKWORM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INHIBITION KINETICS; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOOD PROTEINS; DOGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMOGLOBINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037312504     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367708     Document Type: Article

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