Leishmania major: Identification of developmentally regulated proteins in procyclic and metacyclic promastigotes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 422-429

  Mojtahedi, Zahra ^a,b   Clos, Joachim ^b   Kamali Sarvestani, Eskandar ^a,c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

(DTT); 2D PAGE; dithiothreitol; IEF; isoelectric focusing; MALDI TOF MS; matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation time of flight mass spectrometry; Metacyclic; molecular weight search; MOWSE; peanut agglutinin; PNA ; Procyclic; Promastigotes; Proteomics; Trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa; two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; BRILLIANT BLUE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; SUCCINYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FLAGELLUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIFE CYCLE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; STAINING;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOVEMENT; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 44249089014     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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