A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7244, 2009, Pages 213-217

  Dean, Samuel ^a   Marchetti, Rosa ^b   Kirk, Kiaran ^b   Matthews, Keith R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACONITIC ACID; CITRIC ACID; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN;

BLOOD; DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAN; RNA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMOREGULATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY;

ACONITIC ACID; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CITRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT VECTORS; OOCYTES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TEMPERATURE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; TSETSE FLIES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 66149089452     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07997     Document Type: Article

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