Conserved regions as markers of different patterns of expression and distribution of the mucin-associated surface proteins of Trypanosoma cruzi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 169-174

  De Pablos, Luis M ^a   Osuna, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNAN BINDING LECTIN ASSOCIATED SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

3' CONSERVED REGION; 5' CONSERVED REGION; AMASTIGOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CERCOPITHECUS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84857072383     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05859-11     Document Type: Article

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