Molecular characterization of a blood-induced serine carboxypeptidase from the ixodid tick Haemaphysalis longicornis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3299-3312

  Motobu, Maki ^a   Tsuji, Naotoshi ^a   Miyoshi, Takeharu ^a   Huang, Xiaohong ^a   Islam, M K ^a   Alim, M A ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood digestion; Haemoglobin; Hydrolysis activity; Serine carboxypeptidase; Tick

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEMOGLOBIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; SERINE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; THIOL PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEEDING; FEMALE; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HYDROLYSIS; LYSOSOME; MAMMAL; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TEMPERATURE; TICK; UPREGULATION; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; CATTLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMOGLOBINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINES; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TEMPERATURE; TICKS;

ARTHROPODA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34347398242     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05852.x     Document Type: Article

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