Longistatin, a plasminogen activator, is key to the availability of blood-meals for ixodid ticks

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Anisuzzaman, ^a,b   Islam, M Khyrul ^b,c   Alim, M Abdul ^b   Miyoshi, Takeharu ^b   Hatta, Takeshi ^b   Yamaji, Kayoko ^b   Matsumoto, Yasunobu ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^d,e   Tsuji, Naotoshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; LONGISTATIN; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LONGISTATIN PROTEIN, HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SALIVA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; FIBRIN CLOT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TICK; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALIA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOLYSIN; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES;

EID: 79953277007     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001312     Document Type: Article

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