Peptide deformylase of eukaryotic protists: A target for new antiparasitic agents?

Parasitology Today

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 165-168

  Meinnel, Thierry ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ENZYME; ENZYME INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; EUBACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0034177339     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-4758(99)01627-0     Document Type: Review

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