Molecular Characterization of a Novel Family of Trypanosoma cruzi Surface Membrane Proteins (TcSMP) Involved in Mammalian Host Cell Invasion

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Martins, Nadini Oliveira ^a   Souza, Renata Torres de ^a   Cordero, Esteban Mauricio ^a   Maldonado, Danielle Cortez ^a   Cortez, Cristian ^a   Marini, Marjorie Mendes ^a   Ferreira, Eden Ramalho ^a   Bayer Santos, Ethel ^a,c   Almeida, Igor Correia de ^b   Yoshida, Nobuko ^a   Silveira, José Franco da ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 84949483795     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004216     Document Type: Article

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