Polymorphisms of the genes encoding cruzipain, the major cysteine proteinase of Trypanosoma cruzi, in the region encoding the C-terminal domain

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Martínez, Javier ^a,b   Henriksson, Jan ^b   Ridåker, Maria ^b   Pettersson, Ulf ^b   Cazzulo, Juan José ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

cDNA clone; Cruzipain; Cysteine proteinase; Isoform; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0344734068     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00539-9     Document Type: Article

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