Biochemical characterization of stage-specific isoforms of aspartate aminotransferases from Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-20

  Marciano, Daniela ^a   Llorente, Constanza ^a   Maugeri, Dante A ^b   de la Fuente, Candelaria ^a   Opperdoes, Fred ^c   Cazzulo, Juan J ^b   Nowicki, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^c DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aspartate aminotransferases; Malate dehydrogenases; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DIGITONIN; ISOENZYME; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; POLYHISTIDINE TAG;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYTOSOL; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIMASTIGOTE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; LIFE CYCLE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ASPARTIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; ISOENZYMES; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; KINETICS; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICROBODIES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SUCCINIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 47949083769     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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