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SUBMITTER: Hammoudeh N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4345098 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hammoudeh Nour N Kweider Mahmoud M Abbady Abdul-Qader AQ Soukkarieh Chadi C
Iranian journal of parasitology 20141001 4
<h4>Background</h4>Leishmania Homologue of receptors for Activated C Kinase (LACK) antigen is a 36-kDa protein, which provokes a very early immune response against Leishmania infection. There are several reports on the expression of LACK through different life-cycle stages of genus Leishmania, but only a few of them have focused on L.tropica.<h4>Methods</h4>The present study provides details of the cloning, DNA sequencing and gene expression of LACK in this parasite species. First, several local ...[more]