Profiling of proteolytic enzymes in the gut of the tick Ixodes ricinus reveals an evolutionarily conserved network of aspartic and cysteine peptidases

BACKGROUND: Ticks are vectors for a variety of viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases in human and domestic animals. To survive and reproduce ticks feed on host blood, yet our understanding of the intestinal proteolytic machinery used to derive absorbable nutrients from the blood meal is poor. Inte...

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Autores principales: Sojka, Daniel, Franta, Zdeněk, Horn, Martin, Hajdušek, Ondřej, Caffrey, Conor R, Mareš, Michael, Kopáček, Petr
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2289814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18348719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-1-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2289814/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18348719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-1-7

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