Arginine and Lysine Transporters Are Essential for Trypanosoma brucei
Arginine and Lysine Transporters Are Essential for Trypanosoma brucei
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United States: Public Library of Science
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For Trypanosoma brucei arginine and lysine are essential amino acids and therefore have to be imported from the host. Heterologous expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants identified cationic amino acid transporters among members of the T. brucei AAAP (amino acid/auxin permease) family. TbAAT5-3 showed high affinity arginine uptake (Km 3.6 ±...
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Arginine and Lysine Transporters Are Essential for Trypanosoma brucei
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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1855060791
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1855060791
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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10.1371/journal.pone.0168775
