TbUNC119 and its binding protein complex are essential for propagation, motility, and morphogenesis of trypanosoma brucei procyclic form cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Ohshima, Shigeru ^a   Ohashi Suzuki, Mitsuko ^a,b   Miura, Yutaka ^a   Yabu, Yoshisada ^a   Okada, Noriko ^a   Ohta, Nobuo ^a,b   Suzuki, Takashi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNCOORDINATED PROTEIN 119; UNCOORDINATED PROTEIN 119 BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; UNC119 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; FLAGELLUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GLOSSINA (GENUS); TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLAGELLA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 78650966770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015577     Document Type: Article

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