Cysteine proteinase inhibitors kill cultured bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei brucei

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 349-355

  Troeberg, Linda ^a   Morty, Rory E ^a   Pike, Robert N ^b   Lonsdale Eccles, John D ^c   Palmer, James T ^d   McKerrow, James H ^e   Coetzer, Theresa H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d Axys Pharmaceuticals Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloromethylketones; Cysteine proteinase; Diazomethylketone; Fluoromethylketone; Trypanocidal; Trypanopain Tb; Trypanosoma brucei brucei; Trypanosome; Vinyl sulfones

Indexed keywords

CARBOBENZOXYPHENYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLCHLOROMETHYLKETONE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; METHYLPIPERAZINE UREA PHENYLALANYLHOMOPHENYLALANYLVINYLSULFONE; PEPTIDE CHLOROMETHYL KETONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032812781     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1998.4386     Document Type: Article

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