Selenocysteine incorporation in Kinetoplastid: Selenophosphate synthetase (SELD) from Leishmania major and Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-171

  Sculaccio, S A ^a,b,c   Rodrigues, E M ^a   Cordeiro, A T ^a   Magalhaes A ^a   Braga, A L ^d   Alberto, E E ^d   Thiemann, O H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c Laboratory of Interfacial Electrochemistry   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leishmania; selD; Selenocysteine; Selenophosphate synthetase; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELENOCYSTEINE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 54049091075     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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