Pepsin-like aspartic protease (Sc-ASP155) cloning, molecular characterization and gene expression analysis in developmental stages of nematode Steinernema carpocapsae

Gene

Volumn 500, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 164-171

  Balasubramanian, Natesan ^a   Nascimento, Gisela ^a   Ferreira, Ricardo ^a   Martinez, Monica ^a   Simões, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aspartic protease; Entomopathogenic nematode; Expressed sequence tag; Gene expression; Life cycle; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPSIN A;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEMATODE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID PROTEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PEPSIN A; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RHABDITIDA; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; XENORHABDUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 84860437046     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.03.062     Document Type: Article

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