SmCL3, a gastrodermal cysteine protease of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dvořák, Jan ^a   Mashiyama, Susan T ^a   Sajid, Mohammed ^a,b   Braschi, Simon ^a,d   Delcroix, Melaine ^a,e   Schneider, Eric L ^a   McKerrow, Wilson H ^a,f   Bahgat, Mahmoud ^c   Hansell, Elizabeth ^a   Babbitt, Patricia C ^a   Craik, Charles S ^a   McKerrow, James H ^a   Caffrey, Conor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^d ABCAM PLC   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI CATHEPSIN L3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CATHEPSIN L; HEMOGLOBIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PROTOZOAL DNA; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; PICHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN L; CRICETINAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME STABILITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PICHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERUM ALBUMIN; SNAILS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68349115090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000449     Document Type: Article

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