Molecular cloning, expression analysis and iron metal cofactor characterisation of a superoxide dismutase from Toxoplasma gondii

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 121-129

  Ödberg Ferragut, Carmen ^a   Philippe Renault, Jean ^b   Viscogliosi, Eric ^c   Toursel, Catherine ^a   Briche, Isabelle ^a   Engels, Anne ^a   Lepage, Gilbert ^a   Morgenstern Badarau, Irène ^b   Camus, Daniel ^a   Tomavo, Stanislas ^a   Dive, Daniel ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Gene cloning; Iron superoxide dismutase; Protein expression; Toxoplasma gondii

Indexed keywords

IRON; METAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHLOROPLAST; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXON; GENOME; INTRON; LIFE CYCLE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, PROTOZOAN; IRON; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 0343048402     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00211-X     Document Type: Article

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