Isolation, purification and characterization of GPI-anchored membrane proteins from Trypanosoma rangeli and Trypanosoma cruzi

Acta Tropica

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 140-145

  Añez Rojas, Néstor ^a   García Lugo, Pablo ^a   Crisante, Gladys ^a   Rojas, Agustina ^a   Añez, Néstor ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

GPI; Membrane proteins; Species differentiation; Trypanosoma cruzi; Trypanosoma rangeli

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHAGAS DISEASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMA RANGELI;

EID: 30644463471     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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