The human microsporidian Encephalitozoon hellem synthesizes two spore wall polymorphic proteins useful for epidemiological studies

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2221-2230

  Polonais, Valérie ^a,b   Mazet, Muriel ^a,b   Wawrzyniak, Ivan ^a,b   Texier, Catherine ^a,b   Blot, Nicolas ^a,b   El Alaoui, Hicham ^a,b   Delbac, Frédéric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHITIN; DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPORE WALL PROTEIN EHSWP1A; SPORE WALL PROTEIN EHSWP1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMS BY LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PARASITE ENDOSPORE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROLOGY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL WALL; CYTOPLASM; DNA, FUNGAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 77951235709     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01225-09     Document Type: Article

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