Cryptosporidium parvum: The first protist known to encode a putative polyketide synthase

Gene

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-89

  Zhu, Guan ^a   LaGier, Michael J ^b   Stejskal, Frantisek ^c   Millership, Jason J ^a   Cai, Xiaomin ^a   Keithly, Janet S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; Fatty acid synthase; Phylogeny; Polyketide synthase

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACYL CARRIER PROTEIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID; DEHYDRASE; ENOYL REDUCTASE; ENZYME; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; KETOACYL SYNTHASE; KETOREDUCTASE; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 0037130946     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00931-9     Document Type: Article

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