The major tick salivary gland proteins and toxins from the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi, are part of the tick lipocalin family: Implications for the origins of tick toxicoses

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1158-1167

  Mans, Ben J ^a   Louw, Abraham I ^a   Neitz, Albert W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene duplication; Lipocalins; Tick toxicoses

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; COLLAGEN; LIPOCALIN; MOUBATIN; PROTEIN; TICK SALIVARY GLAND PROTEIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; ORNITHODOROS SAVIGNYI; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TICK; TICK BITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHODOROS; PHYLOGENY; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RABBITS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TICK INFESTATIONS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; ORNITHODOROS SAVIGNYI;

EID: 0037743752     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg126     Document Type: Article

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