The tyrosine aminotransferase from Trypanosoma rangeli: Sequence and genomic characterization

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 253-257

  Bontempi, Esteban J ^a   García, Gabriela A ^a   Buschiazzo, Alejandro ^b   Henriksson, Jan ^c   Pravia, Carlos A ^a   Ruiz, Andrés M ^a   Pettersson, Ulf ^c   Pszenny, Viviana ^a  

^a Inst Nac Parasitol Dr Mario F   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA INDUSTRIAL   (Argentina)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Tandemly repeated gene; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli; Tyrosine aminotransferase

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TYROSINE; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EPIMASTIGOTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA; TYROSINE TRANSAMINASE;

PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 0034663934     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00293-7     Document Type: Article

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