CK2 Secreted by Leishmania braziliensis Mediates Macrophage Association Invasion: A Comparative Study between Virulent and Avirulent Promastigotes

Figure 2

Effect of possible substrates on sCK2 activity in the virulent sample of L. braziliensis. CK2 activity was measured as previously described [32], and the conditions of the assay are described in Section 2 (all substrates were used at 1 mg/mL). The values are presented as the mean of 3 independent experiments conducted in triplicate ( indicates and indicates ; one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post hoc test).