The astacin metalloprotease moulting enzyme NAS-36 is required for normal cuticle ecdysis in free-living and parasitic nematodes

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-248

  Stepek, Gillian ^a   McCormack, Gillian ^a   Birnie, Andrew J ^a   Page, Antony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

astacin metalloprotease; Brugia malayi; Caenorhabditis elegans; cuticle; Haemonchus contortus; moulting

Indexed keywords

ASTACIN; ASTACIN METALLOPROTEASE MOLTING ENZYME NAS 36; ASTACIN METALLOPROTEASE MOLTING ENZYME NAS 37; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CUTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HAEMONCHUS; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; METALLOPROTEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 79952989525     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010001113     Document Type: Article

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