Identification and characterization of purine nucleoside transporters from Crithidia fasciculata

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Liu, Wei ^a   Arendt, Cassandra S ^a   Gessford, Sarah K ^a   Ntaba, Dziwe ^a   Carter, Nicola S ^a   Ullman, Buddy ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crithidia fasciculata; Nucleoside; Purine starvation; Purines; Transport; Transporters

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PURINE SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STARVATION; UPREGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 13444269026     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.11.018     Document Type: Article

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