The expression of Toxoplasma proteins in Neospora caninum and the identification of a gene encoding a novel rhoptry protein

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-223

  Beckers, Con J M ^a   Wakefield, Therese ^b   Joiner, Keith A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Dense granule; Neospora caninum; Protein targeting; Rhotropy; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COCCIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ACID ANHYDRIDE HYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOSPORA; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSFECTION; VACUOLES; VERO CELLS;

EID: 0030777203     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00120-5     Document Type: Article

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