A new family of giardial cysteine-rich non-VSP protein genes and a novel cyst protein

PLoS ONE

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Davids, Barbara J ^a   Reiner, David S ^a   Birkeland, Shanda R ^b   Preheim, Sarah P ^c   Cipriano, Michael J ^b   McArthur, Andrew G ^b   Gillin, Frances D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE RICH NON VARIANT CYST PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TETRAPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIABLE SURFACE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TROPHOZOITE; UPREGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GIARDIASIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC VARIATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 36549053285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000044     Document Type: Article

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