Molecular characterization and expression of a granzyme of an ectothermic vertebrate with chymase-like activity expressed in the cytotoxic cells of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-55

  Praveen, Kesavannair ^a   Leary III, John H ^a   Evans, Donald L ^a   Jaso Friedmann, Liliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Granzyme; Natural killer cells; Nonspecific cytotoxic cells; Teleosts

Indexed keywords

BENZYL DERIVATIVE; CHYMASE; CYSTEINE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; ESTER DERIVATIVE; GRANZYME 1; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CYTOTOXICITY; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA PASTORIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELEOST; TILAPIA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHYMASES; CICHLIDS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHORBOL ESTERS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PICHIA PASTORIS; TELEOSTEI; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644858551     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-005-0063-4     Document Type: Article

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