Profiling of proteolytic enzymes in the gut of the tick Ixodes ricinus reveals an evolutionarily conserved network of aspartic and cysteine peptidases

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sojka, Daniel ^a   Franta, Zdeněk ^a,c   Horn, Martin ^b   Hajdušek, Ondřej ^c   Caffrey, Conor R ^d   Mareš, Michael ^b   Kopáček, Petr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN D;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; IXODES RICINUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; NEMATODA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 57549115852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-1-7     Document Type: Article

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