Transmembrane molecules for phylogenetic analyses of pathogenic protists: Leishmania-specific informative sites in hydrophilic loops of trans-endoplasmic reticulum N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-210

  Waki, Kayoko ^a   Dutta, Sujoy ^a   Ray, Debalina ^a   Kolli, Bala Krishna ^a   Akman, Leyla ^a   Kawazu, Shin Ichiro ^b   Lin, Chung Ping ^c   Chang, Kwang Poo ^a,d  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d The Chicago Medical College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETOPLAST DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; UDPACETYLGLUCOSAMINE DOLICHYL PHOSPHATE ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE 1 PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; UDPACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-DOLICHYL-PHOSPHATE ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-1-PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYMOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; LEISHMANIA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, KINETOPLAST; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOME; LEISHMANIA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LEISHMANIA ENRIETTII; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIA PANAMENSIS; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; VIANNIA;

EID: 33847237627     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00282-06     Document Type: Article

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