Taenia crassiceps cysticerci: Characterization of the 14-kDa glycoprotein with homologies to antigens from Taenia solium cysticerci

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-300

  Peralta, Regina H ^a   Espíndola, Noeli M ^b   Pardini, Alessandra X ^b   Iha, Alberto H ^b   Moura, Hercules ^c   Barr, John R ^c   Vaz, Adelaide J ^b   Peralta, José M ^d  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Glycoprotein antigen; Protein sequence; Taenia crassiceps; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MANNOSE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOID; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CROSS REACTIONS; CYSTICERCUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LECTINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 76049090859     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.10.016     Document Type: Article

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