Cryptosporidium parvum long-chain fatty acid elongase

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2018-2028

  Fritzler, Jason M ^a   Millership, Jason J ^a,c   Zhu, Guan ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZOETIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; CERULENIN; FATTY ACID; FATTY ACID ELONGASES; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KINETICS; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERULENIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADP; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSFECTION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 36849076216     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00210-07     Document Type: Article

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