Dinitroaniline activity in Toxoplasma gondii expressing wild-type or mutant α-tubulin

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1453-1460

  Ma, Christopher ^a,d   Tran, Johnson ^a   Gu, Frank ^b   Ochoa, Roxanna ^a   Li, Catherine ^a   Sept, David ^b   Werbovetz, Karl ^c   Morrissette, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; AMIPROFOS METHYL; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BENFLURALIN; BUTRALIN; DINITRAMINE; ETHALFLURALIN; FLUCHLORALIN; ISOPROPALIN; N PHENYL 3,5 DINITRO N,N DI N PROPYLSULFANILAMIDE; NITRALIN; ORYZALIN; PENDIMETHALIN; PROFLURALIN; TRIFLURALIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COCCIDIOSTATS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; POINT MUTATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOXOPLASMA; TUBULIN;

EID: 77950184582     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01150-09     Document Type: Article

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