Schistosoma mansoni TGF-β receptor II: Role in host ligand-induced regulation of a schistosome target gene

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0536-0550

  Osman, Ahmed ^a   Niles, Edward G ^a   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^b   LoVerde, Philip T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIGAND; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SMAD PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1; HELMINTH PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TGF BETA TYPE I RECEPTOR; TGF-BETA TYPE I RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA TYPE II RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-BETA TYPE II RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA ISOLATION; DNA PROBE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORM; ANIMAL; DRUG INTERACTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LARVA; LIGANDS; MALE; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 33745684276     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.0020054     Document Type: Article

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