Fasciola hepatica leucine aminopeptidase, a promising candidate for vaccination against ruminant fasciolosis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-64

  Acosta, Daniel ^a   Cancela, Martín ^a,b   Piacenza, Lucia ^b   Roche, Leda ^b   Carmona, Carlos ^a   Tort, José F ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Fasciola hepatica; Leucine aminopeptidase; Metalloprotease; Parasite; Trematode; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; ANTISERUM; APROTININ; BESTATIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE 7 AMINO 4 METHYLCOUMARIN; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; DITHIOTHREITOL; DIVALENT CATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEUCINE 7 AMINO 4 METHYLCOUMARIN; LEUPEPTIN; MANGANESE; METHIONINE 7 AMINO 4 METHYLCOUMARIN; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; PEPSTATIN; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; TOSYLLYSYL CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DRUG PURIFICATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; HOST; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIFE CYCLE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METACERCARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHISTOSOMA; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COUMARINS; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME ACTIVATORS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEUCINE; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; METALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RABBITS; SCHISTOSOMA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; SCHISTOSOMA; TREMATODA;

EID: 38649140223     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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