Identification and predicted structure of a leucine-rich repeat motif shared by Leishmania major proteophosphoglycan and Parasite Surface Antigen 2

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-295

  Montgomery, Jacqui ^a   Ilg, Thomas ^b   Thompson, Jennifer K ^a   Kobe, Bostjan ^c   Handman, Emanuela ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^c ST VINCENT'S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leishmania major; Leucine; Parasites; Structure

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE; PROTEOGLYCAN; PROTEOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE STRUCTURE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE;

ANIMALIA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR;

EID: 0034655609     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00186-9     Document Type: Article

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