The cytoskeleton of trypanosomatid parasites

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 629-655

  Gull, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Flagellum; Kinetoplas t; Leishmania; Microtubule; Parasite; Protozoa; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CENTRIOLE; CYTOSKELETON; FLAGELLUM; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA; LIFE CYCLE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; REVIEW; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; LEISHMANIA; MICROTUBULES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATINA;

EID: 0032724638     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.629     Document Type: Review

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