Evidence for multiple active states of Plasmodium falciparum hypoxanthine-guanine-xanthine phosphoribosyltransferase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 433-437

  Subbayya, I N S ^a   Balaram, H ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Drug target; Malaria; Phosphoribosyltransferase; Plasmodium falciparum; Purine salvage; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; HYPOXANTHINE GUANINE XANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHORIBOSYL PYROPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; KINETICS; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURINE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034694903     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3962     Document Type: Article

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