Cloning and characterisation of Schistosoma japonicum insulin receptors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  You, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Wenbao ^a   Jones, Malcolm K ^a,b   Gobert, Geoffrey N ^a   Mulvenna, Jason ^a   Rees, Glynn ^a   Spanevello, Mark ^a   Blair, David ^c   Duke, Mary ^a   Brehm, Klaus ^d   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIGANDS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 77954606890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009868     Document Type: Article

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