The initial step of glycerolipid metabolism in Leishmania major promastigotes involves a single glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase enzyme important for the synthesis of triacylglycerol but not essential for virulence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 800-810

  Zufferey, Rachel ^a   Mamoun, Choukri Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; DIHYDROXYACETONE PHOSPHATE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 63; GLYPICAN; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACYLATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; LMGAT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIHYDROXYACETONE PHOSPHATE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCERIDES; GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; KINETICS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRIGLYCERIDES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 17644399063     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04579.x     Document Type: Article

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