Trypanosoma cruzi amino acid transporter TcAAAP411 mediates arginine uptake in yeasts

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-102

  Carrillo, Carolina ^a   Canepa, Gaspar E ^b   Giacometti, Alina ^b   Bouvier, Leon A ^b   Miranda, Mariana R ^b   De Los Milagros Camara, María ^b   Pereira, Claudio A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AAAP family; Amino acid transport; Arginine permease; Chagas' disease; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ARGININE PERMEASE; AUXIN PERMEASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CANAVANINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; YEAST;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, BASIC; ARGININE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 77951119253     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.01936.x     Document Type: Article

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