A novel epitope tag system to study protein targeting and organelle biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 235-239

  Bastin, Philippe ^a   Bagherzadeh, Azadeh ^a   Matthews, Keith R ^a   Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epitope tag; Paraflagellar rod; Trypanosomes; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELL ORGANELLE; CROSS REACTION; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0029894292     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02598-4     Document Type: Article

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