Naegleria fowleri: A free-living highly pathogenic amoeba contains trypanothione/trypanothione reductase and glutathione/glutathione reductase systems

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 141-146

  Ondarza, Raúl N ^a,b,c   Hurtado, Gerardo ^a   Tamayo, Elsa ^a   Iturbe, Angélica ^a   Hernández, Eva ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cysteine; Drug target; Glutathione; Glutathione reductase; glutathionyl spermidine; Gspd; MALDI TOF; matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight; mBBr; monobromobimane; Naegleria fowleri; T(S)2; Trypanothione; trypanothione disulphide; Trypanothione reductase

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TRYPANOTHIONE; TRYPANOTHIONE DISULFIDE; TRYPANOTHIONE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA LUCILIAE; DRUG TARGETING; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; FLAGELLATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOST; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LASER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERMIDINE; VIRULENCE;

CRITHIDIA LUCILIAE; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENOZOA; KINETOPLASTIDA; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

EID: 33749639792     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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