Characterization and molecular cloning of an adenosine kinase from Babesia canis rossi

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1015-1021

  Carret, Céline ^a   Delbecq, Stéphane ^a   Labesse, Gilles ^c   Carcy, Bernard ^a   Precigout, Eric ^a   Moubri, Karina ^a   Schetters, Theo P M ^b   Gorenflot, André ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adenosine kinase; Glutathione S transferase fusion protein; Homology modelling; Intracellular parasite; Structure function analysis

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE KINASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSE;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ADENOSINE KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033230076     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00806.x     Document Type: Article

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