A membrane-associated metalloprotease of Taenia solium metacestode structurally related to the FACE-1/Ste24p protease family

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 925-935

  Cai, Guo Bin ^a,b   Bae, Young An ^a   Kim, Seon Hee ^a   Na, Byoung Kuk ^a   Kim, Tong Soo ^c   Jiang, Ming Sen ^b   Kong, Yoon ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CaaX protease; FACE 1 Ste24p protease; Platyhelminthes; Taenia solium metacestode; Zinc dependent metalloprotease

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE;

DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLATWORM; GENE EXPRESSION; PARASITE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER WALL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CESTODE; COVALENT BOND; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METACESTODE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLATYHELMINTH; PRENYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCOLEX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYSTICERCOSIS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TAENIA SOLIUM;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 33845265275     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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