Enhanced acquisition of purine nucleosides and nucleobases by purine-starved Crithidia luciliae

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 279-287

  Alleman, Mary M ^a   Gottlieb, Michael ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3' nucleotidase nuclease (3' N'ase); Crithidia luciliae; nutrient starvation; nutrient uptake; purine nucleobases; purine nucleosides; purine salvage enzymes; trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PURINE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA LUCILIAE; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030004477     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02566-2     Document Type: Article

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