Crithidia luciliae: Functional expression of nucleoside and nucleobase transporters in Xenopus laevis oocytes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-188

  Hall, Simone T ^a   Penny, Jeffrey I ^b   Gero, Annette M ^a   Krishna, Sanjeev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; NUCLEOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA LUCILIAE; PROTOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031683191     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4320     Document Type: Article

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