Trypanosoma brucei: Reduction of GPI-phospholipase C protein during differentiation is dependent on replication of newly transformed cells

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 222-229

  Subramanya, Sandesh ^a   Armah, Dora A ^a   Mensa Wilmot, Kojo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; GPI phospholipase C; Post transcriptional regulation of protein expression; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DIACYLGLYCEROL LYASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE REPRESSION; HALF LIFE TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; RAT; RNA TRANSLATION; STEADY STATE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DIACYLGLYCEROL-LYASE; MICE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952584498     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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