Molecular and biochemical characterization of hexokinase from Trypanosoma cruzi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-262

  Cáceres, Ana Judith ^a   Portillo, Ramon ^a   Acosta, Hector ^a   Rosales, David ^a   Quiñones, Wilfredo ^a   Avilan, Luisana ^a   Salazar, Leiria ^b   Dubourdieu, Michel ^a   Michels, Paul A M ^c   Concepción, Juan Luis ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cloning; Glycosome; Hexokinase; Kinetic analysis; Recombinant enzyme; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE; HEXOKINASE; HISTIDINE; ISOENZYME; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PYROPHOSPHATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETRAMER;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; EPIMASTIGOTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOELECTRIC POINT; KINETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXOKINASE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345073638     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(02)00294-3     Document Type: Article

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