Neospora caninum: Tachyzoites express a potent type-I nucleoside triphosphate hydrolase, but lack nucleoside diphosphate hydrolase activity

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-285

  Asai, Takashi ^a   Howe, Daniel K ^b   Nakajima, Kyoko ^a   Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^a   Sibley, L David ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexan protozoa; ATPase; Neosporosis; Purine salvage; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

NEOSPORA CANINUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032212406     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4346     Document Type: Article

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