Trypanosoma cruzi poly-zinc finger protein: A novel DNA/RNA-binding CCHC-zinc finger protein

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-44

  Espinosa, Joaquín M ^a   Portal, Daniel ^a   Lobo, Guillermo S ^a   Pereira, Claudio A ^a   Alonso, Guillermo D ^a   Gómez, Eliana B ^a   Lan, Graciela Humbert ^b   Pomar, Rolando V Rivera ^b   Flawiá, Mirtha M ^a   Torres, Héctor N ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CCHC type zinc finger; Poly zinc finger protein; Serine arginine rich protein; TcPZFP1; TcSR; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CELL EXTRACT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 10744230300     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(03)00187-7     Document Type: Article

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