Toxoplasma gondii expresses two distinct lactate dehydrogenase homologous genes during its life cycle in intermediate hosts

Gene

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-12

  Yang, Shumin ^a,b,c   Parmley, Stephen F ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c Heska Corporations   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexan parasite; Bradyzoite; cDNA cloning; Developmental gene expression; Tachyzoite

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALKALINITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOENZYMES; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0031015560     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00566-5     Document Type: Article

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