The NcGRA7 gene encodes the immunodominant 17 kDa antigen of Neospora caninum

Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-50

  Alvarez Garcia G ^a   Pitarch, A ^b   Zaballos, A ^c   Fernandez Garcia A ^a   Gil, C ^b   Gomez Bautista M ^a   Aguado Martinez A ^a   Ortega Mora, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Immunodominant antigen; NcGRA7; Neospora caninum; p17

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; ISOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEIN NCGRA7; PROTEIN P17; PROTEIN P17 ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACIDITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN PURIFICATION; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NCGRA7 GENE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERUM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COCCIDIOSIS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VERO CELLS;

BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEOSPORA CANINUM;

EID: 33845462021     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182006001284     Document Type: Article

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