Serine proteinases of the human body louse (Pediculus humanus): Sequence characterization and expression patterns

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 486-500

  Waniek, Peter J ^a   Hendgen Cotta, Ulrike B ^a   Stock, Pia ^a   Mayer, Christoph ^a   Kollien, Astrid H ^a   Schaub, Günter A ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHYMOTRYPSIN; GENOMIC DNA; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN; TRYPSINOGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; INTRON; LOUSE; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME INDUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDICULUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRYPSIN;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS CORPORIS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 27744603482     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1463-y     Document Type: Article

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