Leishmania aethiopica: Identification and characterization of cathepsin L-like cysteine protease genes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-290

  Kuru, Teklu ^a,b,e   Jirata, Dagim ^a,b,c   Genetu, Abebe ^a,b,d   Barr, Stephen ^e   Mengistu, Yohannes ^f   Aseffa, Abraham ^a   Gedamu, Lashitew ^e  

^a ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c Debub University   (Ethiopia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Cathepsin L; CL; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Cysteine Proteases; Leishmania aethiopica

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LAECPA GENE; LAECPB GENE; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CELL LINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

LEISHMANIA AETHIOPICA;

EID: 37849185368     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.09.011     Document Type: Article

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