Genomic organization of the Schistosoma mansoni aspartic protease gene, a platyhelminth orthologue of mammalian lysosomal cathepsin D

Gene

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-109

  Morales, Maria E ^a   Kalinna, Bernd H ^b   Heyers, Oliver ^b   Mann, Victoria H ^a   Schulmeister, Alexandra ^b   Copeland, Claudia S ^a   Loukas, Alex ^c   Brindley, Paul J ^a,d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartic protease; BAC; bacterial artificial chromosome; Cathepsin D; DIG; digoxygenin; EST; Exon; expressed sequence tag; Hemoglobin digestion; Intron; long terminal repeat; LTR; open reading frame; ORF; Orthologue; Parasite; Phylogeny; Retrotransposon; Schistosome

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CATHEPSIN D; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXON; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INTRON; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CATHEPSIN D; DNA, HELMINTH; EXONS; GENES, HELMINTH; HUMANS; INTRONS; LYSOSOMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERMES;

EID: 4143121384     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2004.05.017     Document Type: Article

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