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SUBMITTER: Lu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345952 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu S S Parizi L F LF Torquato R J S RJS Vaz Junior I S IS Tanaka A S AS
Scientific reports 20190124 1
The characterization of Rhipicephalus microplus tick physiology can support efforts to develop and improve the efficiency of control methods. A sequence containing a domain with similarity to one derived from the aspartic peptidase family was isolated from the midgut of engorged female R. microplus. The lack of the second catalytic aspartic acid residue suggest that it may be a pseudo-aspartic peptidase, and it was named RmPAP. In this work we confirm the lack of proteolytic activity of RmPAP an ...[more]