Functional characterisation and drug target validation of a mitotic kinesin-13 in Trypanosoma brucei

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 45-46

  Chan, Kuan Yoow ^a   Matthews, Keith R ^b   Ersfeldk, Klaus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINESIN; PROTEIN TBKIF13 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SEPARATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KINESIN; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 77958084230     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001050     Document Type: Article

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