Stage-specific activity of the Leishmania major CRK3 kinase and functional rescue of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc2 mutant

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 139-150

  Wang, Yixin ^a   Dimitrov, Krassen ^b   Garrity, Lynne K ^a   Sazer, Shelley ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cdc2 kinase; Cell cycle control; Development; Protozoan parasite

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MITOSIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; COSMIDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032582841     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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