Analysis of Small GTPase Function in Trypanosomes

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 438, Issue , 2008, Pages 57-76

  Field, Mark C ^a   Horn, David ^b   Carrington, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MONOMERIC GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLONING; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYMOLOGY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 45549109692     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(07)38005-1     Document Type: Review

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