An Entamoeba cysteine peptidase specifically expressed during encystation

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 521-524

  Ebert, Frank ^a   Bachmann, Anna ^a   Nakada Tsukui, Kumiko ^b   Hennings, Ina ^a   Drescher, Babette ^a   Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^b   Tannich, Egbert ^a   Bruchhaus, Iris ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PAPAIN; PEPTIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYST; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DATA BASE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PARALOGY; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENTAMOEBA; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TROPHOZOITES;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; PROTOZOA; REPTILIA;

EID: 53049105926     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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