Lipase and antibacterial activities of a recombinant protein from the accessory glands of female Phlebotomus papatasi (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 673-682

  Belardinelli, M ^a   Fausto, A M ^a   Guerra, L ^a   Buonocore, F ^a   Bongiorno, G ^b   Maroli, M ^b   Mazzini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENYLCAPRYLATE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OCTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSYCHODIDAE; REPRODUCTION;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHLEBOTOMUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

DIPTERA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHLEBOTOMUS PAPATASI; POSIBACTERIA; PSYCHODIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27144516762     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X51472     Document Type: Article

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