In Silico Analysis of the Fucosylation-Associated Genome of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma mansoni: Cloning and Characterization of the Fucosyltransferase Multigene Family

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Peterson, Nathan A ^a   Anderson, Tavis K ^b   Yoshino, Timothy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2 FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA3 FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA6 FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GDP L FUCOSE; GLYCAN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; SERINE; THREONINE; THROMBOSPONDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; CLADISTICS; COMPUTER MODEL; FUCOSYLATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONOPHYLY; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENOME, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 84877823906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063299     Document Type: Article

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