Evidence that trypanothione reductase is an essential enzyme in Leishmania by targeted replacement of the tryA gene locus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 653-660

  Tovar, Jorge ^a   Wilkinson, Shane ^a   Mottram, Jeremy C ^b   Fairlamb, Alan H ^a,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRYPANOTHIONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MURINAE; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0031854156     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00968.x     Document Type: Article

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