ATCC? Number:30957?
Organism: Giardia intestinalis (Lambl) Alexeieff
Designations: WB
Isolation: duodenal aspirate, 30-year-old human male, Bethesda, MD, 1979
Depositors: FD Gillin
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 2155: LYI Giardia Medium (filtered)Temperature: 35.0℃ Duration: axenic; anaerobic
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Comments: Localization of acid phosphatase activity [38263] Substrate specificity of two cysteine proteinases [4824] Sorting of cyst wall proteins [4842] Regulation of secretory vesicle formation [4865] Production of viable cysts [4626] Small-intestinal factors promote encystation [4706] Roles of bile, lactic acid, and pH in life cycle [4863] Comparison of methods for excystation [4928] Isoenzyme electrophoresis [4864] [4830] [4640] [5021] Restriction-endonuclease analysis of DNA [4720] Zymodemes and chromosomes of Giardia spp. [21701] Isolation of gene coding for major surface protein [21703] Presence and cellular distribution of a 60-KDA protein [21694] Structure/phylogeny of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes [21695] Excretory/secretory products [21704] Heterogeneity in strain karyotypes [21762] Susceptibility of domestic cats to infectious Giardia lamblia [4742] Purine nucleoside and nucleobase cell membrane transport [23808] Immunoelectron microscopy of cytoskeleton [23841] Killing by cryptdins and cationic neutrophil peptides [23858] Anti-giardial activity of gastrointestinal remedies [23876] A lipoprotein-cholesterol-albumin serum substitute [23882] killing by human milk [23967] Characterization of isolates from a waterbrone outbreak [5021] Mass cultivation [24013] Comparative studies on encystation [24014] The role of conjugated and unconjugated bile salts in killing by human milk [24032] Cyst-specific antigens [24053] Purine deoxynucleoside salvage [24054] Biliary lipids for serum-free growth [24062] Structure of a rRNA-encoding chromosomes [24091] Drug sensitivity, toxin production, and host immune response [24119] specific and common antigens [24125] Infectivity of cryopreserved cysts [24138] Inhibition of growth by difluoromethyl-ornithine [24153] Characterization of antigens [24166] Clones with distinct surface protein and antigenic profiles and differing infectivity and virulence [24206] Axenic culture and characterization [24210] Encystation-deficient subline [24214] Ingestion by murine macrophages [24238] species description [20948]
Related Items: purified DNA:ATCC30957D
Cross References: Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF005078 translation initiation factor 2 gamma subunit, eIF-2 gamma gene, partial coding sequenceNucleotide (GenBank) : U12337 Giardia lamblia WB inorganic pyrophosphate-linked phosphofructokinase (GLPFK) gene, complete cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : U19901 Giardia lamblia putative adenylate kinase gene, complete cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : AF067402 DNA polymerase alpha gene sequence, partial coding sequenceNucleotide (GenBank) : M63966 Giardia lamblia variant-specific surface protein 1267 (vsp1267) gene, complete cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : U10907 Giardia lamblia WB putative surface antigen gene, partial cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : U24238 Giardia lamblia (ENC1) mRNA, complete cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : X60427 G.lamblia telomere DNA containing truncated rRNA large subunit gene.Nucleotide (GenBank) : U24239 Giardia lamblia (ENC6) mRNA, complete cds.Nucleotide (GenBank) : U42428 Giardia lamblia caltractin (CAL) gene, complete cds.
Classification: KINGDOM: Archeozoa
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Localization of acid phosphatase activity [38263] Substrate specificity of two cysteine proteinases [4824] Sorting of cyst wall proteins [4842] Regulation of secretory vesicle formation [4865] Production of viable cysts [4626] Small-intestinal factor