Arginine kinase in Phytomonas, a trypanosomatid parasite of plants

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-43

  Canepa, Gaspar E ^a   Carrillo, Carolina ^b   Miranda, Mariana R ^a   Sayé, Melisa ^a   Pereira, Claudio A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Jatropha macrantha; Leishmania; Phosphagen; Phosphagen kinases; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGINASE; ARGININE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEISHMANIA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; JATROPHA; KINETOPLASTIDA; PHYTOMONAS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 79960107240     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: 18791107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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