Eimeria tenella sporozoites and merozoites differentially express glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored variant surface proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-132

  Tabarés, Enrique ^a   Ferguson, David ^b   Clark, Julie ^a   Soon, Puay Eng ^c   Wan, Kiew Lian ^c   Tomley, Fiona ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Eimeria tenella; Eimeria tenella surface antigen; EtSAG; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol; GPI; GPI linked; Merozoite; Sporozoite; Surface protein

Indexed keywords

EIMERIA TENELLA SURFACE ANTIGEN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNITY; MEROZOITE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; SPOROZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

COCCIDIA; EIMERIA; EIMERIA TENELLA;

EID: 1842763135     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.01.013     Document Type: Article

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