Entamoeba invadens: Cysteine protease inhibitors block excystation and metacystic development

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Makioka, Asao ^a   Kumagai, Masahiro ^a   Kobayashi, Seiki ^b   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cysteine protease; dimethyl sulfoxide; dithiothreitol; DMSO; DTT; Entamoeba invadens; Excystation; Metacystic development; Protozoa; SDS PAGE; sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENTAMOEBA;

ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 11444250624     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2004.10.003     Document Type: Article

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