Cryptosporidium parvum spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase exhibits different characteristics from the host enzyme

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-180

  Yarlett, Nigel ^a   Wu, Gang ^a   Waters, W Ray ^b   Harp, James A ^b   Wannemuehler, Michael J ^c   Morada, Mary ^a   Athanasopoulos, Demos ^a   Martinez, Martha P ^a   Upton, Steve J ^d   Marton, Laurence J ^e   Frydman, Benjamin J ^f  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Cellgate Incorporated   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; Enzyme kinetics; Polyamine metabolism; Spermidine spermine N1 acetyltransferase

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; ARGININE; N1 ACETYLSPERMIDINE; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; POLYAMINE OXIDASE; PROTEIN SSAT; SPERMINE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OOCYTES; POLYAMINES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33847302061     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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