Characterization of the Entamoeba histolytica ornithine decarboxylase-like enzyme

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Jhingran, Anupam ^a   Padmanabhan, Prasad K ^a   Singh, Sushma ^a   Anamika, Krishanpal ^b   Bakre, Abhijeet A ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^a   Bhattacharya, Alok ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanaswamy ^b   Madhubala, Rentala ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; EFLORNITHINE; HISTIDINE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTOZOAL DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TYROSINE; POLYAMINE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LYSATE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATURA STRAMONIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EFLORNITHINE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYAMINES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48949117998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000115     Document Type: Article

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