The essential neutral sphingomyelinase is involved in the trafficking of the variant surface glycoprotein in the bloodstream form of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1461-1482

  Young, Simon A ^a   Smith, Terry K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIDE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHORED PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE INACTIVATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, ESSENTIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPHINGOMYELINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS, TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 77953493504     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07151.x     Document Type: Article

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