Cloning, characterization and expression of a calnexin homologue from the pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Yeast

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 79-87

  dos Santos Feitosa, Luciano ^a   de Almeida Soares, Célia Maria ^b   dos Santos, Márcia Regina Machado ^a,d   Bailão, Alexandre Melo ^b   Xander, Patrícia ^a   Mortara, Renato Arruda ^a   Lopes, José Daniel ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c Universidade Bandeirante de São Paulo UNIBAN ^*  (Brazil)

^d Universidade Bandeirante de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calnexin homologue; Chaperone; Paracoccid ioidomycosis; Paracoccidioidides brasiliensis; Recombinant protein

Indexed keywords

CALNEXIN; CALRETICULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STAINING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALNEXIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 33847275174     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1438     Document Type: Article

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