A Leishmania major protein with extensive homology to silent information regulator 2 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Gene

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-118

  Yahiaoui, Bilel ^a   Taibi, Ali ^a   Ouaissi, Ali ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Expression library; Fusion protein; Immunoscreening; Promastigote

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; KLUYVEROMYCES; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029928666     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00785-7     Document Type: Article

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