MPS1: A small, evolutionarily conserved zinc finger protein from the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-239

  Mattsson, Jens G ^a,b   Soldati, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

MPS1; Ribosomal protein; S27; Toxoplasma gondii; Transformation; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; METALLOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOXOPLASMA; TRANSFECTION; ZINC FINGERS;

PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 0032724781     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00490-5     Document Type: Article

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