The role of alanine 163 in solute permeability of Leishmania major aquaglyceroporin LmAQP1

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-90

  Mukhopadhyay, Rita ^a   Mandal, Goutam ^a   Atluri, Venkata Subba Rao ^a   Figarella, Katherine ^b,d   Uzcategui, Nestor L ^b,e   Zhou, Yao ^b   Beitz, Eric ^c   Ajees, A Abdul ^a   Bhattacharjee, Hiranmoy ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Fundacion Instituto de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

^e UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Alanine; Antimonite; Aquaglyceroporin; C loop; Drug resistance; Leishmania; LmAQP1; Pore mouth

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; AQUAGLYCEROPORIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCEROL; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MERCURY; SERINE; THREONINE; WATER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUTE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; WILD TYPE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIMONY; AQUAGLYCEROPORINS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLYCEROL; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; MERCAPTOETHANOL; MERCURY; METALLOIDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REDUCING AGENTS; WATER;

LEISHMANIA MAJOR; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 78049443092     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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