Cysteine proteinase activities in the fish pathogen Philasterides dicentrarchi (Ciliophora: Scuticociliatida)

Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 541-548

  Parama A ^a   Iglesias, R ^b   Alvarez M F ^a   Leiro, J ^a   Ubeira, F M ^a   Sanmartin M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ciliate; Cysteine protease; Fish pathogen; Histolytic activity; Philasterides dicentrarchi; Scuticociliatosis

Indexed keywords

ANILIDE; CATHEPSIN B; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; HEMOGLOBIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; CILIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FIBROBLAST; FISH DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHILASTERIDES DICENTRARCHI; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURBOT;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; CILIOPHORA INFECTIONS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLORIMETRY; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIBROBLASTS; FISH DISEASES; FLATFISHES; GELATIN; HEMOGLOBINS;

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; PROTOZOA; SCOPHTHALMUS MAXIMUS; SCUTICOCILIATIA;

EID: 2542426758     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182004004883     Document Type: Article

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