Blunting the knife: Development of vaccines targeting digestive proteases of blood-feeding helminth parasites

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 391, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 901-911

  Pearson, Mark S ^a,b   Ranjit, Najju ^c   Loukas, Alex ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haemoglobin; Helminth; Hookworm; Parasite; Protease; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; EXOPEPTIDASE; HELMINTH ANTIBODY; HELMINTH PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE; VACCINE;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CLONORCHIS SINESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GLYCOSYLATION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HELMINTH; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HOOKWORM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTESTINE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRENI; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEOMICS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; STOMACH SECRETION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DIGESTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; LARVA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; VACCINATION; VACCINES; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NEMATODA; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 77955933088     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2010.074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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