Cloning, expression and reconstitution of the trypanothione-dependent peroxidase system of Crithidia fasciculata

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 111-123

  Tetaud, Emmanuel ^a   Fairlamb, Alan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drug design; Peroxidoxin; Thiol specific antioxidant; Thioredoxin; Trypanothione peroxidase system

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PEROXIDASE; TRYPANOTHIONE; TRYPAREDOXIN; TRYPAREDOXIN PEROXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLUTATHIONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PEROXIDASES; PEROXIDES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMIDINE; THIOREDOXIN;

EID: 0032582843     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00120-0     Document Type: Article

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