Purification, cloning, and expression of two closely related Trypanosoma brucei nucleic acid binding proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 145-158

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Williams, Noreen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleic acid binding proteins; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0030841780     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00060-1     Document Type: Article

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