Collagen processing and cuticle formation is catalysed by the astacin metalloprotease DPY-31 in free-living and parasitic nematodes

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 533-542

  Stepek, Gillian ^a   McCormack, Gillian ^a   Page, Antony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astacin metalloprotease; BMP; Brugia malayi; Caenorhabditis elegans; Cuticle; Development; Haemonchus contortus

Indexed keywords

ASTACIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; PROTEIN DPY 31; PROTEIN SQT 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COLLAGEN; EXOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INTESTINE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYLUM; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REPORTER GENE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; COLLAGEN; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, REPORTER; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; METALLOPROTEASES; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77950021238     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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