Putative serine/threonine protein kinase expressed in complement-resistant forms of Entamoeba histolytica

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-178

  Urban, Britta ^a   Blasig, Cornelia ^a,b   Förster, Birgit ^a   Hamelmann, Christoph ^a,c   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c African Medical and Research Foundation Mwanza   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Alternate polyadenylation; Amoebiasis; E. histolytica; Subtractive cDNA library; Subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN KINASE; SERINE; THREONINE;

AMEBIASIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 0030272392     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(96)02684-9     Document Type: Article

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