An insight into the sialome of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma infestans, a vector of Chagas' disease

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-232

  Assumpção, Teresa C F ^a   Francischetti, Ivo M B ^c   Andersen, John F ^c   Schwarz, Alexandra ^b   Santana, Jaime M ^a   Ribeiro, José M C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Feeding; Hematophagy; Saliva; Salivary gland; Sialome; Transcriptome; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

APYRASE; CAPSID PROTEIN; DEFENSIN; INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; LIPOCALIN; SALIVA PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRIALYSIN PROTEIN, TRIATOMA INFESTANS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SECRETION; TRANSPOSON; TRIATOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APYRASE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CHAGAS DISEASE; DEFENSINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INOSITOL PHOSPHATES; LIPOCALINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PROTEOMICS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERPINS; TRIATOMA;

HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 38349061343     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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