Cysteine proteinases of Trypanosoma cruzi: From digestive enzymes to programmed cell death mediators

Biocell

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 479-490

  Kosec, Gregor ^a   Alvarez, Vanina ^b   Cazzulo, Juan J ^b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Autophagy; Chagas disease; Cysteine proteinases; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ASPARTYL PEPTIDASE; CASPASE; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; METACASPASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPSIN A; PEPTIDASE; SERINE PEPTIDASE; THREONINE PEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 33846293219     PISSN: 03279545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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