Identification, subcellular localization, biochemical properties, and high-resolution crystal structure of Trypanosoma brucei UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

Glycobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1619-1630

  Mariño, Karina ^a,c   Güther, Maria Lucia Sampaio ^a   Wernimont, Amy K ^a   Amani, Mernhaz ^b   Hui, Raymond ^b   Ferguson, Michael A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

kinetoplastids; sugar nucleotide metabolism; Trypanosoma brucei; UDP glucose; UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; PLASMID DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; PEROXISOMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; UTP-GLUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

BOS; KINETOPLASTIDA; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 78149321649     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: 14602423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwq115     Document Type: Article

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