Carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase II in kinetoplastids

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1387, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 462-468

  Nara, Takeshi ^a   Gao, Ganghan ^a   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakajima Shimada, Junko ^a   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase II; Gene cloning; Leishmania mexicana; Molecular adaptation; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBAMOYL PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE HYDROLYSING); GLUTAMINASE; GLUTAMINE; KINETOPLAST DNA; LYSINE; PYRIMIDINE; TRYPTOPHAN; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CLONOGENESIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHILICITY; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING); CLONING, MOLECULAR; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0032497380     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(98)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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