A Function for a Specific Zinc Metalloprotease of African Trypanosomes

The Trypanosoma brucei genome encodes three groups of zinc metalloproteases, each of which contains ∼30% amino acid identity with the major surface protease (MSP, also called GP63) of Leishmania. One of these proteases, TbMSP-B, is encoded by four nearly identical, tandem genes transcribed in both b...

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Main Authors: Grandgenett, Paul M, Otsu, Keiko, Wilson, Helen R, Wilson, Mary E, Donelson, John E
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2034397/