The use of transgenic Trypanosoma brucei to identify compounds inducing the differentiation of bloodstream forms to procyclic forms

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 311-322

  Sbicego, Sandro ^a   Vassella, Erik ^a   Kurath, Ursula ^a   Blum, Beat ^a   Roditi, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Glucuronidase; Differentiation; Drug screening; Pleomorphic; Protease; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ACONITIC ACID; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; PEPSIN A; PROCYCLIN; PRONASE; PROTEINASE; THERMOLYSIN; THROMBIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ACONITIC ACID; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CITRATES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCURONIDASE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSGENES; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032717332     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00157-7     Document Type: Article

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