A Pathogenic Nematode Targets Recognition Proteins to Avoid Insect Defenses

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Toubarro, Duarte ^a   Avila, Mónica Martinez ^a   Montiel, Rafael ^b   Simões, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BPTI KUNITZ FAMILY INHIBITOR; CHYMOTRYPSIN; ELASTASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; THROMBIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD CLOTTING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGGREGATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE EVASION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEINERNEMA CARPOCAPSAE;

ANIMALS; APROTININ; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNE EVASION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEMATODA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84884746182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075691     Document Type: Article

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