Identification of novel serine/threonine protein phosphatases in Trypanosoma cruzi: A potential role in control of cytokinesis and morphology

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1350-1358

  Orr, George A ^a   Werner, Craig ^a   Xu, Jun ^a   Bennett, Marcia ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a   Takvorkan, Peter ^b   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a   Wittner, Murray ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OKADAIC ACID; OXAZOLES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0033964108     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.3.1350-1358.2000     Document Type: Article

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