Isolation, characterization and expression of the gene encoding cytidine triphosphate synthetase from Giardia intestinalis1

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 249-257

  Lim, Renee L H ^a   O'Sullivan, William J ^a   Stewart, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cytidine triphosphate synthetase; Giardia intestinalis; Pyrimidine biosynthesis; Recombinant enzyme

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROKARYOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUTAMINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SYNTHETASE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 6; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBON-NITROGEN LIGASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029929732     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02635-7     Document Type: Article

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