Cloning and expression of trypanothione reductase from a New World Leishmania species

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 189, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 375-384

  Castro Pinto, Denise Barçante ^a   Genestra, Marcelo ^a   Menezes, Gustavo B ^a   Waghabi, Mariana ^a   Gonçalves, Antonio ^a   De Nigris Del Cistia, Catarina ^b   Sant'Anna, Carlos Mauricio R ^b   Leon, Leonor L ^a   Mendonça Lima, Leila ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene cloning; Leishmania (L.) amazonensis; Leishmaniasis; Thiol metabolism; Trypanothione reductase (EC 1.8.1.12)

Indexed keywords

THIOL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOTHIONE REDUCTASE GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CRITHIDIA FASCICULATA; LEISHMANIA AMAZONENSIS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 43349083951     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-007-0328-4     Document Type: Article

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