Plant-type trehalose synthetic pathway in Cryptosporidium and some other apicomplexans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Yu, Yonglan ^a,b   Zhang, Haili ^b   Zhu, Guan ^b,c  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; TREHALOSE; TREHALOSE 6 PHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE; TREHALOSEPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ALVEOLATA; APICOMPLEXA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASMODIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAMENOPILE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); STRAMENOPILES; VERTEBRATA;

APICOMPLEXA; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TREHALOSE; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

EID: 77958594154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012593     Document Type: Article

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