LmxPK4, a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase homologue of Leishmania mexicana with a potential role in parasite differentiation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1169-1182

  Kuhn, Daniela ^a   Wiese, Martin ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN LMXPK4; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLAGELLUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REINFECTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN SHEATH; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 19944401878     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04614.x     Document Type: Article

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