Synthetic propeptide inhibits mosquito midgut chitinase and blocks sporogonic development of malaria parasite

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 304, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 783-787

  Bhatnagar, Raj K ^a   Arora, Naresh ^a   Sachidanand, S ^b   Shahabuddin, Mohammed ^c   Keister, David ^c   Chauhan, Virendra S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Malaria parasite; Propeptide

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALARIA; MIDGUT; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPOROGENESIS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; AVES; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM;

EID: 0037449211     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00682-X     Document Type: Article

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