Heterologous expression of a plant arginine decarboxylase gene in Trypanosoma cruzi

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1674, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 223-230

  Carrillo, Carolina ^a   Serra, María P ^a   Pereira, Claudio A ^b   Huber, Alejandra ^a   González, Nélida S ^a   Algranati, Israel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Arginine decarboxylase; Polyamine biosynthesis; Transgenic parasite; Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigote

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DIFLUOROMETHYLARGININE;

ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE GENE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HALF LIFE TIME; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSGENE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AVENA SATIVA; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOXY-LYASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 7944222074     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2004.06.017     Document Type: Article

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