Partial purification and characterization of an aminopeptidase from Eimeria tenella

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1280-1286

  Fetterer, R H ^a   Miska, K B ^a   Barfield, R C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ENZYME;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA TENELLA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MEROZOITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPOROGENESIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA TENELLA; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROLYSIS; INTRONS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA TENELLA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 32544446610     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-554R.1     Document Type: Article

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