Reconstruction and in silico analysis of the MAPK signaling pathways in the human blood fluke, Schistosoma japonicum

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3677-3686

  Wang, Lili ^a,b   Yang, Zhong ^a,b   Li, Yuanyuan ^b   Yu, Fudong ^b   Brindley, Paul J ^e   McManus, Donald P ^f   Wei, Dongzhi ^a   Han, Zeguang ^d   Feng, Zheng ^c   Li, Yixue ^b   Hu, Wei ^b,c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^e TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^f QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Mitogen activated protein kinase signaling pathways; Schistosoma japonicum

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNIT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SEXUAL MATURATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; HOMO SAPIENS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 33745132995     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.05.055     Document Type: Article

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