The complexity of the secreted NPA and FAR lipid-binding protein families of Haemonchus contortus revealed by an iterative proteomics-bioinformatics approach

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-94

  Kuang, Lisha ^a,b   Colgrave, Michelle L ^a   Bagnall, Neil H ^a   Knox, Malcolm R ^a   Qian, Min ^b   Wijffels, Gene ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

C. elegans; FAR; Haemonchus contortus; Lipid binding proteins; Nematode; NPA; Parasite

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIGEN; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPROTEIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTERTAGIA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; OSTERTAGIA OSTERTAGI; VERMES;

EID: 68749108323     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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