Leishmania amazonensis: Biosynthesis of polyprenols of 9 isoprene units by amastigotes

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 624-628

  Arruda, Denise Costa ^a   D'Alexandri, Fabio Luiz ^a   Katzin, Alejandro M ^a   Uliana, Silvia Reni B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amastigotes; coenzyme Q; CoQ; Dol n; Dolichol; dolichols of n isoprene units; FBS; foetal bovine serum; high performance thin layer chromatography; HPTLC; Leishmania; Mevalonate; mevalonic acid; MVA; PBS; phosphate buffered saline; Polyisoprenoids; polyprenol of n isoprene units; Pren n; reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography; RP HPLC

Indexed keywords

DOLICHOL; ERGOSTEROL; ISOPRENE; ISOPRENOID; LECTIN; POLYPRENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHO CELL; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEISHMANIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STEROL SYNTHESIS;

BOVINAE; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 40649109562     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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