Type I signal peptidase from Leishmania is a target of the immune response in human cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-20

  Rafati, Sima ^a   Salmanian, Ali Hatef ^b   Taheri, Tahere ^a   Masina, Slavica ^c   Schaff, Cedric ^c   Taslimi, Yasaman ^a   Fasel, Nicolas ^c  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Human immunoreactivities; Leishmania major; Signal peptidase; Signal peptide; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE I; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVALUATION; GENETIC CODE; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TARGETING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INFANT; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR;

EID: 1842663058     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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