Giardia duodenalis: Direct experimental evidence for the absence of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor in a variant surface protein

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-52

  Hülsmeier, Andreas J ^a   Köhler, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CID,; collision induced dissociation; electrospray ionisation quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry; ESI Q TOF MS,; FACS,; fluorescence activated cell sorting; glycosylphosphatidyl inositol; GPI,; high performance liquid chromatography; HPLC

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SURFACE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EXTRACTION; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL SEPARATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, DEAE-CELLULOSE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 11444254767     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2004.10.006     Document Type: Article

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