Apolipoprotein L-I is the trypanosome lytic factor of human serum

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6927, 2003, Pages 83-87

  Vanhamme, Luc ^a   Paturiaux Hanocq, Françoise ^a   Poelvoorde, Philippe ^a   Nolan, Derek P ^a,f   Lins, Laurence ^b   Van Den Abbeele, Jan ^c   Pays, Annette ^a   Tebabi, Patricia ^a   Van Xong, Huang ^a   Jacquet, Alain ^a   Moguilevsky, Nicole ^a   Dieu, Marc ^d   Kane, John P ^e   De Baetselier, Patrick ^a   Brasseur, Robert ^b   Pays, Etienne ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

HUMAN SLEEPING SICKNESS;

DISEASES;

APOLIPOPROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN L 1; PROTEIN; SERUM RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

PARASITE; PATHOLOGY;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENDOSOME; FETAL CALF SERUM; HUMAN; LYSIS; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SERUM; TRYPANOSOMA RHODESIENSE;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LYSOSOMES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI RHODESIENSE;

EID: 0037422045     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01461     Document Type: Article

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