Multiple cathepsin B isoforms in schistosomula of Trichobilharzia regenti: identification, characterization and putative role in migration and nutrition

Abstract

Cathepsin B1 isoforms were found in Trichobilharzia regenti schistosomula; they cleave components of the host nervous tissue.

Keywords

• Trichobilharzia regenti
• schistosomes
• cathepsin B
• peptidase
• Schistosoma
• myelin basic protein
• asparaginyl endopeptidase
• Trematodes