Molecular interactions underlying the unusually high adenosine affinity of a novel Trypanosoma brucei nucleoside transporter

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 921-929

  Al Salabi, Mohammed I ^a   Wallace, Lynsey J M ^a   Lüscher, Alexandra ^b   Mäser, Pascal ^b   Candlish, Denise ^a   Rodenko, Boris ^a   Gould, Matthew K ^a   Jabeen, Ishrat ^a   Ajith, Sreekantan N ^a   De Koning, Harry P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 DEAZAADENOSINE; 2 NITROADENOSINE; 2 NITROPURINE RIBOSIDE; 3 DEAZAADENOSINE; 5' DEOXYADENOSINE; 6 CHLOROPURINE RIBONUCLEOSIDE; 7 DEAZA 2' DEOXYADENOSINE; ADENINE; ADENOSINE; AMINOPURINE TRANSPORTER B; AMINOPURINE TRANSPORTER D; CORDYCEPIN; DEOXYADENOSINE; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER 10; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER 9; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GUANOSINE; HYDROXYL GROUP; HYPOXANTHINE; INOSINE; MERCAPTOPURINE RIBOSIDE; NEBULARINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; PYRIMIDINE; THYMIDINE; TUBERCIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIDARABINE; XANTHOSINE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TRANSPORT; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INOSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 33847154235     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.106.031559     Document Type: Article

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