Leishmania donovani bisubunit topoisomerase I gene fusion leads to an active enzyme with conserved type IB enzyme function

FEBS Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 150-163

  Das, Benu B ^a   Bose Dasgupta, Somdeb ^a   Ganguly, Agneyo ^a   Mazumder, Saumyabrata ^a   Roy, Amit ^a   Majumder, Hemanta K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Camptothecin; Gene fusion; Leishmania; SKXXY motif; Topoisomerase I

Indexed keywords

CAMPTOTHECIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE FUSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 33845630287     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2006.05572.x     Document Type: Article

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