Cloning and expression of an iron-containing superoxide dismutase in the parasitic protist, Trichomonas vaginalis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-123

  Viscogliosi, Eric ^a   Delgado Viscogliosi, Pilar ^b   Gerbod, Delphine ^a   Dauchez, Manuel ^c   Gratepanche, Sylvie ^c   Alix, Alain J P ^c   Dive, Daniel ^c  

^a Lab de Biologie des Protistes   (France)

^b CENTRE JEAN PERRIN   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Expression; Hydrophobic cluster analysis; Protein sequence; Superoxide dismutase; Trichomonas vaginalis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0032053781     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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