Trypanosoma brucei GPEET-PARP is phosphorylated on six out of seven threonine residues

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 291-296

  Mehlert, Angela ^a   Treumann, Achim ^a   Ferguson, Michael A J ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol; GPEET PARP; MALDI TOF; Phosphorylation; Procyclin; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTHREONINE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ANIMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0032981742     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(98)00168-6     Document Type: Article

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