Cloning and biochemical characterization of genes encoding two isozymes of cysteine synthase from Entamoeba dispar

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 129-133

  Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^a   Tokoro, Masaharu ^b   Imada, Mihoko ^a   Saito, Yumiko ^a   Abe, Yoko ^b   Shigeta, Yasuo ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Cysteine synthase; Entamoeba dispar

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TROPHOZOITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ISOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034653316     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00177-8     Document Type: Article

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