A nonspecific nucleoside hydrolase from Leishmania donovani: Implications for purine salvage by the parasite

Gene

Volumn 280, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 153-162

  Cui, Liwang ^a   Rajasekariah, G R ^b   Martin, Samuel K ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cellabs Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracellular localization; Molecular conservation; Nucleoside hydrolase; Purine salvage; Substrate preference

Indexed keywords

4 NITROPHENYL BETA DEXTRO RIBOFURANOSIDE; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FURAN DERIVATIVE; INOSINE; NUCLEOSIDASE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM BINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PURINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0035668550     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00768-5     Document Type: Article

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