Ixodes ricinus tick lipocalins: Identifications, cloning, phylogenetic analysis and biochemical characterization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Beaufays, Jérôme ^a   Adam, Benoît ^b   Decrem, Yves ^a   Prévôt, Pierre Paul ^a   Santini, Sébastien ^b   Brasseur, Robert ^b   Brossard, Michel ^c   Lins, Laurence ^b   Vanhamme, Luc ^a   Godfroid, Edmond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPEPTIDASE; LEUKOTRIENE B4; LEUKOTRIENE C4; LIGAND; LIPOCALIN; NORADRENALIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN G2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SEROTONIN; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST RESISTANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; IXODES RICINUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; INFESTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PARASITOLOGY; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IXODES; LIPOCALINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS;

EID: 58049195709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003941     Document Type: Article

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