Purification, cloning, and expression of the mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase (mMDH) from protoscolices of Echinococcus granulosus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-214

  Agüero, Fernán ^a   Noé, Griselda ^a   Hellman, Ulf ^b   Repetto, Yolanda ^c   Zaha, Arnaldo ^d   Cazzulo, Juan José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

adenosine monophosphate; AMP; cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide; CTAB; Echinococcus granulosus; helminth energy metabolism; malate dehydrogenase; MDH; NADH; RACE; rapid amplification of cDNA ends; reduced nicotinamide dinucleotide

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALIC ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; OXALOACETIC ACID; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOIDY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HELMINTH; KINETICS; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; VERMES;

EID: 4644271729     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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