A B-cell mitogen from a pathogenic trypanosome is a eukaryotic proline racemase

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 890-897

  Reina San Martín, Bernardo ^a   Degrave, Wim ^a,b   Rougeot, Catherine ^a   Cosson, Alain ^a   Chamond, Nathalie ^a   Cordeiro da Silva, Anabela ^a,c   Arala Chaves, Mario ^c   Coutinho, Antonio ^d   Minoprio, Paola ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROLINE DERIVATIVE; RACEMASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; MITOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MITOGENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0033835159     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/78651     Document Type: Article

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