Cryptosporidium: Genomic and biochemical features

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-9

  Rider Jr , Stanley Dean ^a   Zhu, Guan ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Cryptosporidium; Genomes; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; FATTY ACID; LIPID; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYAMINE; REPLICATION FACTOR A; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA REPLICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYAMINES; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 72449132959     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.12.014     Document Type: Review

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