Identification and validation of Trypanosoma cruzi's glycosomal adenylate kinase containing a peroxisomal targeting signal

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 408-411

  Milagros Camara, María de los ^a   Bouvier, León A ^a   Miranda, Mariana R ^a   Pereira, Claudio A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS ALFREDO LANARI   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adenylate kinase; Glycosome; Peroxisomal targeting signal; Trypanosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; GLYCOSOMAL ADENYLATE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE; GLYCOSOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROXISOMAL TARGETING SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ADENYLATE KINASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; ISOENZYMES; MICROBODIES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEROXISOMES; PLASMIDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 84859110961     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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