Identification of a new spore wall protein from Encephalitozoon cuniculi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 239-247

  Xu, Yanji ^a   Takvorian, Peter ^a   Cali, Ann ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Orr, George ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DITHIOTHREITOL; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; POLAR TUBE PROTEIN 1; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SPORE WALL PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN SPORE; RABBIT; SPOROGENESIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MANNOSE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 29644438012     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.1.239-247.2006     Document Type: Article

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