Leishmania chagasi: A gene encoding a protein kinase with a catalytic domain structurally related to MAP kinase kinase

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-96

  Li, Shiyong ^a   Wilson, Mary E ^b   Donelson, John E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 0029896543     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0012     Document Type: Article

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