TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of cDNAs encoding for Boophilus microplus, Haemaphysalis longicornis and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus actins
AU - Da Silva Vaz, Itabajara
AU - Imamura, Saiki
AU - Nakajima, Chie
AU - De Cardoso, Felipe Cardoso
AU - Sanchez Ferreira, Carlos Alexandre
AU - Renard, Gaby
AU - Masuda, Aoi
AU - Ohashi, Kazuhiko
AU - Onuma, Misao
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Dr. Arnaldo Zaha and Dr. Henrique B. Ferreira for kindly providing the plasmid construct containing Echinococcus granulosus actin (EgactI) and Dr. Karen L. Haag for helpful discussions. This work was supported by grants from CAPES, CNPq, PRONEX, PADCT and FAPERGS (Brazil) and The Ministry of Science, Culture and Education and JSPS (Japan).
PY - 2005/1/20
Y1 - 2005/1/20
N2 - The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the actins from ticks, Boophilus microplus, Haemaphysalis longicornis and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, have been determined. Nucleotide sequence analysis showed open reading frames of 1128-nucleotide-long encoding proteins of 376 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 41.82 kDa each. Comparison between the nucleic acid and deduced amino acid sequences as well as structural and phylogenetic analyses of these genes confirmed the high similarity among actins from ticks in comparison to other species.
AB - The nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the actins from ticks, Boophilus microplus, Haemaphysalis longicornis and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus, have been determined. Nucleotide sequence analysis showed open reading frames of 1128-nucleotide-long encoding proteins of 376 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 41.82 kDa each. Comparison between the nucleic acid and deduced amino acid sequences as well as structural and phylogenetic analyses of these genes confirmed the high similarity among actins from ticks in comparison to other species.
KW - Actin
KW - Boophilus microplus
KW - Haemaphysalis longicornis
KW - Rhipicephalus appendiculatus
KW - Tick
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.10.002
DO - 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.10.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 15631908
AN - SCOPUS:20344393137
SN - 0304-4017
VL - 127
SP - 147
EP - 155
JO - Veterinary parasitology
JF - Veterinary parasitology
IS - 2
ER -