Conservation and function of Rab small GTPases in Entamoeba: Annotation of E. invadens Rab and its use for the understanding of Entamoeba biology

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 337-347

  Nakada Tsukui, Kumiko ^a   Saito Nakano, Yumiko ^a   Husain, Afzal ^a   Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encystation; Entamoeba; Rab; Small GTPase; Vesicular traffic

Indexed keywords

RAB PROTEIN; ISOENZYME;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; PHYLOGENY; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; PROTOZOA; REPTILIA;

EID: 77956234143     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.04.014     Document Type: Review

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