Experimental verification of the identity of variant-specific surface proteins in Giardia lamblia trophozoites

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Li, Wei ^a   Saraiya, Ashesh A ^a   Wang, Ching C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VARIANT SPECIFIC SURFACE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VARIANT SURFACE PROTEIN H7, GIARDIA LAMBLIA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHOZOITE; VARIANT SPECIFIC SURFACE PROTEIN GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE; GENETICS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TROPHOZOITES;

EID: 84879584977     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00321-13     Document Type: Article

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