Molecular characterisation of an expressed sequence tag locus of Toxoplasma gondii encoding the micronemal protein MIC2

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-214

  Wan, Kiew Lian ^a,c   Carruthers, Vern B ^b   Sibley, L David ^b   Ajioka, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Bacterial artificial chomosome; Etp100; I domain; Thrombospondin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTEGRIN; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ADHESION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EIMERIA TENELLA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BREFELDIN A; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EIMERIA TENELLA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0031044707     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(96)02796-X     Document Type: Article

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