Tryptogalinin Is a Tick Kunitz Serine Protease Inhibitor with a Unique Intrinsic Disorder

BACKGROUND: A salivary proteome-transcriptome project on the hard tick Ixodes scapularis revealed that Kunitz peptides are the most abundant salivary proteins. Ticks use Kunitz peptides (among other salivary proteins) to combat host defense mechanisms and to obtain a blood meal. Most of these Kunitz...

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Autores principales: Valdés, James J., Schwarz, Alexandra, Cabeza de Vaca, Israel, Calvo, Eric, Pedra, Joao H. F., Guallar, Victor, Kotsyfakis, Michalis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23658744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062562

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23658744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062562

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