Identification of novel aspartic proteases from Strongyloides ratti and characterisation of their evolutionary relationships, stage-specific expression and molecular structure

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mello, Luciane V ^a   O'Meara, Helen ^a   Rigden, Daniel J ^a   Paterson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE 2A; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE 2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PH; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 74549194471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-611     Document Type: Article

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