Identification of Babesia bovis L-lactate dehydrogenase as a potential chemotherapeutical target against bovine babesiosis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-172

  Bork, Sabine ^a   Okamura, Masashi ^a   Boonchit, Suthisak ^a   Hirata, Haruyuki ^a   Yokoyama, Naoaki ^a   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Babesia bovis; Babesia bovis lactate dehydrogenase; base pair; BbLDH; bp; catalytic activity; inhibitor constant; kcat; ki; km; kD; kilodalton; maximum velocity; Michealis constant; RBC; red blood cell; Vmax

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GOSSYPOL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME KINETICS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RECOMBINANT GENE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GOSSYPOL; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOVINAE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 2942627711     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.03.009     Document Type: Article

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