Proteophosphoglycan confers resistance of Leishmania major to midgut digestive enzymes induced by blood feeding in vector sand flies

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 906-918

  Secundino, Nagila ^a   Kimblin, Nicola ^a   Peters, Nathan C ^a   Lawyer, Phillip ^a   Capul, Althea A ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^b   Turco, Salvatore J ^c   Sacks, David ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTESTINE ENZYME; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; MUCIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION; INFECTION RESISTANCE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS; MIDGUT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHLEBOTOMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PSYCHODIDAE;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; INSECT VECTORS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEOGLYCANS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PSYCHODIDAE;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LUTZOMYIA LONGIPALPIS; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PHLEBOTOMUS DUBOSCQI;

EID: 77954434293     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2010.01439.x     Document Type: Article

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