Schistosoma japonicum UDP-glucose 4-epimerase protein is located on the tegument and induces moderate protection against challenge infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Pingping ^a   Shi, Yanli ^a,b   Yang, Yunxia ^a   Cao, Yufan ^a   Shi, Yaojun ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Liu, Jinming ^a   Lin, Jiaojiao ^a   Jin, Yamei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTEGUMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SJGALE GENE; TH1 CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNIZATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UDPGLUCOSE 4-EPIMERASE;

MUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84864411863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042050     Document Type: Article

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