Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella pseudospiralis: Developmental patterns of enzymes involved in thymidylate biosynthesis and pyrimidine salvage

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 593-600

  Rode, W ^a   Dabrowska M ^a   Zielinski Z ^a   Golos, B ^a   Wranicz, M ^b   Felczak, K ^c   Kulikowski, T ^c  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dihydrofolate reductase; dUTPase; Pyrimidine salvage; Thymidylate synthase; Trichinella pseudospiralis; Trichinella spiralis

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE PHOSPHATE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FLUOROURACIL; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PEPSIN A; PLEVITREXED; PYRIMIDINE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHATE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CYCLE; DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; LARVA; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PYRIMIDINES; THYMIDINE KINASE; THYMIDINE MONOPHOSPHATE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 0034114522     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005880     Document Type: Article

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