Putrescine and spermidine transport in Leishmania

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-46

  Basselin, Mireille ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^a   Barrett, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axenic amastigotes; Leishmania; Pentamidine; Polyamine transport; Promastigotes

Indexed keywords

2,4 DINITROPHENOL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; PENTAMIDINE; POTASSIUM CYANIDE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONOPHORES; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PENTAMIDINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033883954     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00234-6     Document Type: Article

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