Trypanosoma brucei pteridine reductase 1 is essential for survival in vitro and for virulence in mice

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 658-671

  Sienkiewicz, Natasha ^a   Ong, Han B ^a   Fairlamb, Alan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITONIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PTERIDINE REDUCTASE 1; PTERIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; PTERIDINE REDUCTASE;

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STAINING; SURVIVAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VIRULENCE;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MUS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 77954837542     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07236.x     Document Type: Article

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