SmCL3, a gastrodermal cysteine protease of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Jan Dvorák (लेखक), Susan T Mashiyama (लेखक), Mohammed Sajid (लेखक), Simon Braschi (लेखक), Melaine Delcroix (लेखक), Eric L Schneider (लेखक), Wilson H McKerrow (लेखक), Mahmoud Bahgat (लेखक), Elizabeth Hansell (लेखक), Patricia C Babbitt (लेखक), Charles S Craik (लेखक), James H McKerrow (लेखक), Conor R Caffrey (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma are platyhelminth parasites that infect 200 million people worldwide. Digestion of nutrients from the host bloodstream is essential for parasite development and reproduction. A network of proteolytic enzymes (proteases) facilitates hydrolysis of host hemoglobin...