Identification of novel bradyzoite-specific Toxoplasma gondii genes with domains for protein-protein interactions by suppression subtractive hybridization

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-232

  Friesen, Johannes ^a   Fleige, Tobias ^b   Gross, Uwe ^a   Bohne, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ankyrin; Bradyzoite specific genes; Suppression subtractive hybridization; Toxoplasma gondii; TPR domain

Indexed keywords

ANK1 PROTEIN; ANKYRIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRADYZOITE; CYTOSOL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANKYRINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 38049165945     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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