Controlled chaos of polymorphic mucins in a metazoan parasite (Schistosoma mansoni) interacting with its invertebrate host (Biomphalaria glabrata)

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Roger, Emmanuel ^a   Grunau, Christoph ^a   Pierce, Raymond J ^b   Hirai, Hirohisa ^c   Gourbal, Benjamin ^a   Galinier, Richard ^a   Emans, Rémi ^a   Cesari, Italo M ^d   Cosseau, Céline ^a   Mitta, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUCIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HYPOTHESIS; METAZOON; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SURVIVAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; BIOMPHALARIA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; GLYCOSYLATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROTEOMICS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VERTEBRATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GLYCOSYLATION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MUCINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEOMICS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 60749128489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000330     Document Type: Article

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