Proteolytic activity in Encephalitozoon cuniculi sporogonial stages: Predominance of metallopeptidases including an aminopeptidase-P-like enzyme

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1425-1433

  Chavant, Patrick ^a   Taupin, Vanessa ^a   El Alaoui, Hicham ^a   Wawrzyniak, Ivan ^a   Chambon, Christophe ^b   Prensier, Gérard ^a   Méténier, Guy ^a   Vivarès, Christian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Aminopeptidase P; Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Leucine aminopeptidase; Microsporidia; Proteolytic activity

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; AMINOPEPTIDASE P LIKE ENZYME; APSTATIN; AZOCASEIN; BESTATIN; CALCIUM ION; CASEIN; CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; ISOENZYME; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE INHIBITOR; REDUCING AGENT; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CENTRIFUGATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; NOSEMA LOCUSTA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PH; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS; STEM CELL; ZYMOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; CASEINS; CELL LINE; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DOGS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; METALLOPROTEASES; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANTONOSPORA LOCUSTAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 26944476271     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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