Leishmania infantum chagasi: A genome-based approach to identification of excreted/secreted proteins

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 582-591

  DebRoy, Sruti ^a   Keenan, Alexandra B ^d   Ueno, Norikiyo ^b   Jeronimo, Selma M B ^e   Donelson, John E ^a   Wilson, Mary E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d IA United States   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Excreted secreted proteins; Genome; Leishmania; Secretory pathway; Trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA CHAGASI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PARASITOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MAMMALIA; PHLEBOTOMINAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

ANTISERUM; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

EID: 84755160955     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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