Use of L-proline and ATP production by Trypanosoma cruzi metacyclic forms as requirements for host cell invasion

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3023-3032

  Martins, Rafael Miyazawa ^a   Covarrubias, Charles ^a   Rojas, Robert Galvez ^b   Silber, Ariel Mariano ^b   Yoshida, Nobuko ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTIMYCIN A1; CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP80; PROLINE; ROTENONE; STOMACH MUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HELA CELL; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STARVATION; STRESS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPOMASTIGOTE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ANTIMYCIN A; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CELL MOVEMENT; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROLINE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ROTENONE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 67650080584     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00138-09     Document Type: Article

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