Cloning, sequencing, and functional activity of the Trypanosoma brucei brucei alternative oxidase

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 125-129

  Chaudhuri, Minu ^a   Hill, George C ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

African trypanosomiasis; salicylhydroxamic acid; Trypanosoma brucei brucei; trypanosome alternative oxidase

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; SALICYLHYDROXAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 0030566749     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02754-5     Document Type: Article

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