Homologues of the 24-kDa flagellar Ca2+-binding protein gene of Trypanosoma cruzi are present in other members of the trypanosomatidae family

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 200-205

  Maldonado, Rosa A ^a   Linss, Jutta ^a   Thomaz, Neide ^b   Olson, Cheryl L ^c   Engman, David M ^c   Goldenberg, Samuel ^a  

^a Dept of Biochem and Molec Biology ^*  (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

24 kDa flagellar CaBP (FCaBP); Ca2+ binding protein (CaBP); Calcium binding protein; E F hand proteins; Trypanosomatid

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

CRITHIDIA DEANEI; ENDOTRYPANUM SCHAUDINNI; HERPETOMONAS MEGASELIAE; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEPTOMONAS SEYMOURI; PHYTOMONAS SERPENS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CONORHINI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA LEWISI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0031193885     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1997.4159     Document Type: Article

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