Glycosidases in Leishmania and their importance for Leishmania in phlebotomine sandflies with special reference to purification and characterization of a sucrase

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-124

  Gontijo, Nelder F ^a   Melo, Maria N ^a   Riani, Eliano B ^a   Almeida Silva, Samuel ^a   Mares Guia, Marcos L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Glycosidases; Leishmania amazonensis; Leishmania life cycle; N acetyl D galactosidase; Phlebotomine sand flies; Sucrase purification; Trypanosomatids

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; SUCRASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMUS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030176182     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1996.0055     Document Type: Article

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