Leishmania spp.: Delta-aminolevulinate-inducible neogenesis of porphyria by genetic complementation of incomplete heme biosynthesis pathway

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 629-636

  Dutta, Sujoy ^a   Furuyama, Kazumichi ^b   Sassa, Shigeru ^c   Chang, Kwang Poo ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coproporphyrin; Delta aminolevulinate dehydratase; Heme biosynthesis; Porphobilinogen deaminase; Transgenes; Trypanosomatid protozoa; Uroporphyrin; Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPROPORPHYRIN; HEME; PORPHYRIN; UROPORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; LEISHMANIA; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PORPHYRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSGENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HEME; HYDROXYMETHYLBILANE SYNTHASE; LEISHMANIA; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE; PORPHYRINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES; UROPORPHYRINS;

LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 40649122757     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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