Inactivation of the gene encoding the flagellar pocket protein, CRAM, in African trypanosomes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-242

  Zheng, Baijin ^a   Yao, Hwan ^a   Mary Lee, Gwo Shu ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CRAM; Flagellar pocket; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CYSTEINE RICH ACIDIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROCYCLIC ACIDIC REPETITIVE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FLAGELLATE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

ANIMALIA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032953309     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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