Probing enzymes late in the trypanosomal glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthetic pathway with synthetic glycosylphosphatidylinositol analogues

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 625-634

  Urbaniak, Michael D ^a   Yashunsky, Dmitry V ^b   Crossman, Arthur ^a   Nikolaev, Andrei V ^a   Ferguson, Michael A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; DIMANNOSYL GLUCOSAMINYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHATE TRANSFERASE; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; INOSITOL ACYLTRANSFERASE; INOSITOL DEACYLASE; MANNOSE; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYL GLUCOSAMINYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ACYLATION; AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; MANNOSYLTRANSFERASES; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

BOS; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 58149164667     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb800143w     Document Type: Article

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