Essential roles for GPI-anchored proteins in african trypanosomes revealed using mutants deficient in GPI8

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1182-1194

  Lillico, Simon ^a   Field, Mark C ^b   Blundell, Pat ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^c   Mottram, Jeremy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CYTOKINESIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL CYCLE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; MANNOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (PROPER); INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0037346805     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-03-0167     Document Type: Article

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