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Regulated Expression of an Essential Allosteric Activator of Polyamine Biosynthesis in African Trypanosomes

Trypanosoma brucei is the causative agent of African sleeping sickness. The polyamine biosynthetic pathway has the distinction of being the target of the only clinically proven anti-trypanosomal drug with a known mechanism of action. Polyamines are essential for cell growth, and their metabolism is...

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Autores principales: Willert, Erin K., Phillips, Margaret A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18949025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000183