Trypanothione reductase from Leishmania infantum: Cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary x-ray data analysis

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-200

  Baiocco, Paola ^a,b   Franceschini, Stefano ^a,b   Ilari, Andrea ^a,b   Colotti, Gianni ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drug target; Leishmania infantum; Molecular replacement; Trypanothione reductase; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRYPANOTHIONE REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 63449136128     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986609787316306     Document Type: Article

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