Structural characterisation of two forms of procyclic acidic repetitive protein expressed by procyclic forms of Trypanosoma brucei

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 269, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 529-547

  Treumann, Achim ^a   Zitzmann, Nicole ^a   Hülsmeier, Andreas ^a   Prescott, Alan R ^a   Almond, Andrew ^b   Sheehan, John ^b   Ferguson, Michael A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glycoprotein; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol; PARP; Procyclic; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SEPHAROSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FRACTIONATION; GLYCOCALYX; LIGHT SCATTERING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SIALYLATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0031580206     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1066     Document Type: Article

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