The disulfide redox system of Schistosoma mansoni and the importance of a multifunctional enzyme, thioredoxin glutathione reductase

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 129-139

  Alger, Heather M ^a   Williams, David L ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Glutaredoxin; Glutathione; Schistosoma mansoni; Selenocysteine; Thioredoxin

Indexed keywords

GLUTAREDOXIN; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; SELENOCYSTEINE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM SOCIAL GROUP; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AURANOFIN; DISULFIDES; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SELENOCYSTEINE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (NADPH);

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 0037197711     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00031-2     Document Type: Article

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