The LPG1 gene family of Leishmania major

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-23

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Barron, Tamara ^b   Turco, Salvatore J ^b   Beverley, Stephen M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

G418 resistance marker; Galf; GalfT; galactofurranosyl transferase; galactosylfuranose; GFP; GIPL; glycosylinositolphospholipids; green fluorescent protein; lipophosphoglycan; LPG; NEO; PPG; proteophosphoglycan; SAT

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSYLFURANOSE; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLINOSITOLPHOSPHOLIPID; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN; LIPOPHOSPHOGLYCAN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRITHIDIA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENOME; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WILD TYPE; ZOONOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE DELETION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

CRITHIDIA; ENDOTRYPANUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEPTOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 2342568876     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.02.012     Document Type: Article

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