Potential involvement of Brugia malayi cysteine proteases in the maintenance of the endosymbiotic relationship with Wolbachia

International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 267-277

  Lustigman, Sara ^a   Melnikow, Elena ^a,d   Anand, Setty Balakrishnan ^a,e   Contreras, Aroha ^a   Nandi, Vijay ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Bell, Aaron ^a   Unnasch, Thomas R ^b   Rogers, Mathew B ^c   Ghedin, Elodie ^c,f  

^a NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Velvian GmbH   (Germany)

^e MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteases; Filaria; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84916894409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22113207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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