Haemonchus contortus UNC-18 binds to Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal syntaxin

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Shompole, Sankale ^a,b   Jasmer, Douglas P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Haemonchus contortus; Syntaxin; UNC 18

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PROTEIN UNC 18; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS;

EID: 0141448811     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00136-1     Document Type: Article

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