Entamoeba histolytica: Signaling through G proteins

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 170-175

  Paveto, Cristina ^a   Torres, Héctor N ^a   Flawia, Mirtha M ^a   García Espitia, Matilde ^b   Ortega, Arturo ^b,c   Orozco, Esther ^b,c  

^a Inst Invest Ing Genet y Biol M   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Entamoeba histolytica; Guanine nucleotide binding proteins; PKC, Ca2+ diacylglycerol dependent protein kinase; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032777238     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4361     Document Type: Article

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