Characterization of a leucine aminopeptidase of Babesia gibsoni

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 945-952

  Jia, H ^a   Terkawi, M A ^a   Aboge, G O ^a   Goo, Y K ^a   Luo, Y ^a   Li, Y ^a   Yamagishi, J ^a   Nishikawa, Y ^a   Igarashi, I ^a   Sugimoto, C ^b   Fujisaki, K ^c   Xuan, X ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Babesia gibsoni; Enzymatic activity; Leucine aminopeptidase

Indexed keywords

BESTATIN; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIA GIBSONI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; HYDROLYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BABESIA; BABESIA GIBSONI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTOZOA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEUCYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349572642     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009006398     Document Type: Article

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