Cathepsin L-like cysteine proteases from Brugia malayi: cDNA cloning and comparison with Caenorhabditis elegans

Biomedical Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 287-293

  Nomura, Hiroyuki ^a   Athauda, Senarath B P ^a,b,c   Takase, Mitsuyo ^a   Ukai, Akiko ^a   Azuma, Tomohiko ^a   Hodotsuka, Kenji ^a   Inoue, Hideshi ^a   Takahashi, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^c INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FILARIA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC SCREENING; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FILARIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 27244453533     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.25.287     Document Type: Article

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