Tigutcystatin, a cysteine protease inhibitor from Triatoma infestans midgut expressed in response to Trypanosoma cruzi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 413, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 241-247

  Buarque, Diego S ^a   Spindola, Letícia M N ^a   Martins, Rafael M ^c   Braz, Glória R C ^b   Tanaka, Aparecida S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cruzipain; Cysteine protease inhibitor; Tigutcystatin; Triatoma infestans; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN L; CRUZIPAIN; CYSTATIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYHISTIDINE TAG; THROMBIN; TIGUTCYSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA LIBRARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL INTESTINE; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SALIVARY CYSTATINS; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA; TRIATOMA INFESTANS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 80053120333     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.08.078     Document Type: Article

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