Investigation of the proteolytic functions of an expanded cercarial elastase gene family in Schistosoma mansoni

Cercarial elastase is the major invasive larval protease in Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic blood fluke, and is essential for host skin invasion. Genome sequence analysis reveals a greatly expanded family of cercarial elastase gene isoforms in Schistosoma mansoni. This expansion appears to be uniqu...

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