Glycerol kinase of Trypanosoma brucei: Cloning, molecular characterization and mutagenesis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2323-2333

  Králová, Ivica ^a,d   Rigden, Daniel J ^b   Opperdoes, Fred R ^a   Michels, Paul A M ^a,c  

^a DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c ICP TROP 7439 ^*  (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cloning; Glycerol kinase; Kinetics; Site directed mutagenesis; Trypanosomes

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PHYTOMONAS SP.; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CONGOLENSE; TRYPANOSOMA EQUIPERDUM; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMA VIVAX; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; TRYPANOSOME GAMBIENSE;

EID: 0034053218     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01238.x     Document Type: Article

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