Novel motifs in amino acid permease genes from Leishmania

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 353-366

  Akerman, Martin ^a   Shaked Mishan, Pninit ^a   Mazareb, Salam ^a   Volpin, Hanne ^b   Zilberstein, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Leishmania; Motif; Parasitic protozoa; Permease; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER;

LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 7444261366     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.09.212     Document Type: Article

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