α-Tubulins of Tritrichomonas mobilensis are encoded by multiple genes and are not posttranslationally tyrosinated

Parasitology Research

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 246-248

  Schneider, André ^a   Plessmann, Uwe ^b   Felleisen, Richard ^c   Weber, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRITRICHOMONAS; TUBULIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRITRICHOMONAS MOBILENSIS; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 0032951457     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050542     Document Type: Article

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