Vacuolar protein sorting protein 13A, TtVPS13A, localizes to the Tetrahymena thermophila phagosome membrane and is required for efficient phagocytosis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1207-1218

  Samaranayake, Haresha S ^a,b   Cowan, Ann E ^a   Klobutcher, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RNA; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOME; PHYSIOLOGY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHAGOSOMES; PROTEOME; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 80052378706     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05089-11     Document Type: Article

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