The identification of a VDAC-like protein involved in the interaction of Babesia bigemina sexual stages with Rhipicephalus microplus midgut cells

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 538-541

  Rodríguez Hernández, Elba ^a   Mosqueda, Juan ^b   Alvarez Sánchez, María Elizbeth ^a   Neri, Alfonso Falcón ^c   Mendoza Hernández, Guillermo ^d   Camacho Nuez, Minerva ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^c Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria CENID PAVET Carretera Federal Cuernavaca Cuautla   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Babesia bigemina; Midgut cells; Rhipicephalus microplus; VDAC

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BABESIA BIGEMINA; BABESIOSIS; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; INSECT CELL; MIDGUT; MIDGUT CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHIPICEPHALUS (BOOPHILUS) MICROPLUS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VDAC GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BABESIA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

BABESIA BIGEMINA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 84862494299     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2012.01.028     Document Type: Article

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