Publication Date:
1988-07-22
Description:
The parasitic protozoon Trypanosoma brucei contains a highly organized membrane skeleton, consisting of a dense array of parallel, singlet microtubules that are laterally interconnected and that are also in tight contact with the overlying cell membrane. A high molecular weight, heat-stable protein from this membrane skeleton was isolated that is localized along the microtubules. Protease digestion experiments and sequencing of a cloned gene segment showed that most of the protein is built up by more than 50 nearly identical tandem repeats with a periodicity of 38 amino acids.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schneider, A -- Hemphill, A -- Wyler, T -- Seebeck, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 22;241(4864):459-62.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institut fur allgemeine Mikrobiologie, Universitat Bern, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3393912" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Cell Compartmentation
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Cell Membrane/ultrastructure
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Cloning, Molecular
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Microscopy, Electron
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Microtubule-Associated Proteins/*analysis/genetics
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Microtubules/ultrastructure
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Molecular Weight
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Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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Trypanosoma brucei brucei/*analysis/genetics/ultrastructure
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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