Cysteine peptidases in the tomato trypanosomatid Phytomonas serpens: Influence of growth conditions, similarities with cruzipain and secretion to the extracellular environment

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 343-352

  Elias, Camila G R ^a   Pereira, Fernanda M ^a   Dias, Felipe A ^b   Silva, Thiago L A ^b   Lopes, Angela H C S ^b   d'Avila Levy, Claudia M ^c   Branquinha, Marta H ^b   Santos, André L S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b IMPPG   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cruzipain; Cysteine peptidase; Growth conditions; Phytomonas serpens; Plant trypanosomatid; Secretion

Indexed keywords

CRUZIPAIN; CYSTATIN; CYSTEINE; DITHIOTHREITOL; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; LEUPEPTIN; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; PEPTIDASE;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYTOMONAS SERPENS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTATINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEMIPTERA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEUCINE; LEUPEPTINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; REDUCING AGENTS; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ONCOPELTUS FASCIATUS; PHYTOMONAS SERPENS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 55249102434     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.08.011     Document Type: Article

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