Isolation and characterization of two novel serpins from the tick Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 297-303

  Yu, Yingfang ^a   Cao, Jie ^a   Zhou, Yongzhi ^a   Zhang, Houshuang ^a   Zhou, Jinlin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Chymotrypsin inhibition; Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides; RNA interference; Serpin

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; CHYMOTRYPSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN RHS 1; PROTEIN RHS 2; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN RHS 1; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN RHS 2; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS HAEMAPHYSALOIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK INFESTATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERPINS;

IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS HAEMAPHYSALOIDES;

EID: 84877833968     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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