The γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase of Onchocerca volvulus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 243-251

  Lüersen, Kai ^a   Müller, Sylke ^a   Hussein, Ayman ^b   Liebau, Eva ^a   Walter, Rolf D ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glutamylcysteine synthetase; Chemotherapy; Glutathione; L buthionine S,R sulphoximine; Onchocerca volvulus

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTAMINE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; METHIONINE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STEADY STATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS;

EID: 0034495965     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00325-X     Document Type: Article

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