Cloning, expression and characterization of an unusual guanine phosphoribosyltransferase from giardia lamblia1

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 185-193

  Sommer, Jürg M ^a   Ma, Hilary ^a   Wang, C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; XANTHINE;

ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029944976     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02623-0     Document Type: Article

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