Transcriptome Profiles of the Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus Reveal that Excretory-Secretory Products Are Essential to Metabolic Adaptation

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Pan, Wei ^a,b,c   Shen, Yujuan ^a,b,c   Han, Xiuming ^d   Wang, Ying ^a,b,c   Liu, Hua ^a,b,c   Jiang, Yanyan ^a,b,c   Zhang, Yumei ^a,b,c   Wang, Yanjuan ^a,b,c   Xu, Yuxin ^a,b,c   Cao, Jianping ^a,b,c  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Schistosomiasis and Filariasis   (China)

^d Plague Prevention and Control Department Qinghai Institute for Endemic Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ACONITATE HYDRATASE; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CALRETICULIN; CHAPERONIN 60; EXCRETORY SECRETORY PROTEIN; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 96; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 40; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; INSULIN; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEROXIREDOXIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PYRUVATE KINASE; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UNIVERSAL STRESS PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER MODEL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLYCOLYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TELADORSAGIA CIRCUMCINCTA; VACCINATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENOTYPE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VACCINES;

EID: 84928243764     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003392     Document Type: Article

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