Inactivation of Tritrichomonas foetus and Schistosoma mansoni purine phosphoribosyltransferases by arginine-specific reagents

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 810-817

  Kanaani, Jamil ^a   Maltby, David ^a   Somoza, John R ^a   Wang, Ching C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical modification; Dicarbonyl reagent; Purine salvage; Reactive arginine residue; Substrate binding site

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ARGININE; ENZYME INDUCING AGENT; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHENYLGLYOXAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME INACTIVATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 0030937673     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00810.x     Document Type: Article

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