Cloning and sequence analysis of an amastin coding gene from Leishmania major Abdou

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 698-700

  Cheng, Jun ^a   Zhong, Yanwei ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Yang, Jizhen ^a  

^a BEIJING 302 HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Amastin; Database; Genbank; Gene cloning; Leishmania

Indexed keywords

AMASTIN PROTEIN, TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0033171483     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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