The lumen of the flagellar pocket of Trypanosoma brucei contains both intact and phospholipase C-cleaved GPI anchored proteins

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-275

  Geuskens, Maurice ^a   Pays, Etienne ^a   Cardoso De Almeida, M Lucia ^a  

^a R P   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross reacting determinant (CRD); Flagellar pocket; Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI); Phospholipase C; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; MAMMAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSS REACTIONS; EPITOPES; FLAGELLA; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RABBITS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0034068806     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00228-0     Document Type: Article

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