The extracellular vesicles of the helminth pathogen, Fasciola hepatica: Biogenesis pathways and cargo molecules involved in parasite pathogenesis

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3258-3273

  Cwiklinski, Krystyna ^a   De La Torre Escudero, Eduardo ^a   Trelis, Maria ^b   Bernal, Dolores ^b   Dufresne, Philippe J ^c   Brennan, Gerard P ^a   O'Neill, Sandra ^d   Tort, Jose ^e   Paterson, Steve ^f   Marcilla, Antonio ^b   Dalton, John P ^a   Robinson, Mark W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^d DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CATHEPSIN; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN L; CATHEPSIN X; CYTOSOL AMINOPEPTIDASE; ENOLASE; ENZYME PRECURSOR; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEROXIREDOXIN; PROPIONYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THIOREDOXIN; TRYPSIN; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EXOSOME; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; PROTEOMICS; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84948666568     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M115.053934     Document Type: Article

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