Cloning and heterologous expression of a broad specificity aminotransferase of Leishmania mexicana promastigotes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 217-222

  Vernal, Javier ^a   Cazzulo, Juan José ^b   Nowicki, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aminotransferases; Heterologous expression; Leishmania mexicana

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; PROKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 0348110536     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00824-3     Document Type: Article

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