Identification of a new developmentally regulated Leishmania major large RAB GTPase

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 541-548

  Chenik, Mehdi ^a   Chaabouni, Noura ^a   Achour Chenik, Yosser Ben ^a   Ouakad, Meriem ^a   Lakhal Naouar, Inès ^a   Louzir, Hechmi ^a   Dellagi, Koussay ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Endocytosis; Exocytosis; Gene expression; GTPase; Intracellular transport; Leishmania; RAB like

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; LMLRAB GENE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P25; RAB PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIPROTOZOAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMOTHERAPY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR;

EID: 31444443833     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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