Cloning and Expression of the Major Secreted Cathepsin B-Like Protein from Juvenile Fasciola hepatica and Analysis of Immunogenicity following Liver Fluke Infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 6921-6932

  Law, Ruby H P ^a,b   Smooker, Peter M ^b   Irving, James A ^a   Piedrafita, David ^a   Ponting, Rebecca ^b,c   Kennedy, Nicholas J ^a,b   Whisstock, James C ^a   Pike, Robert N ^a   Spithill, Terry W ^a,b,d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN B LIKE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXOPEPTIDASE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GELATIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE; QUIL A; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; VACCINATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATHEPSIN B; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; VACCINATION; VACCINES; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0345283097     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.12.6921-6932.2003     Document Type: Article

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