The major surface glycoprotein expression sites of two special forms of rat Pneumocystis carinii differ in structure

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1729-1739

  Schaffzin, Joshua K ^a   Stringer, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034080122     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315438     Document Type: Article

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