Degradation of pteridine reductase 1 (PTR1) enzyme during growth phase in the protozoan parasite Leishmania donovani

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 182-189

  Kumar, Pranav ^a   Sundar, Shyam ^b   Singh, Neeloo ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

(4 (2 hydroxyethyl) 1 piperazineethanesulfonic acid); Clinical isolate; dithiothreitol; DTT; ECL; electrochemiluminescence; FACS; fluorescence activated cell sorting; GFP; green fluorescent protein; heat inactivated fetal bovine serum; HEPES; HFBS; Leishmania donovani; Metacyclogenesis; multivesicular tubule lysosome; MVT; PAGE; PBS; phosphate buffered saline; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; Proteasome; Protein degradation; Pteridine reductase 1; pteridine reductase 1; PTR1; SDS; sodium dodecyl sulfate

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LYSINE; PROTEASOME; PTERIDINE DERIVATIVE; PTERIDINE REDUCTASE 1; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH CURVE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LYSOSOME; METACYCLOGENESIS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTOZOON; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOPLASM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FLAGELLA; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; LUMINESCENT AGENTS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

BOVINAE; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 34247092486     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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