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The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme CDC34 is essential for cytokinesis in contrast to putative subunits of a SCF complex in Trypanosoma brucei.
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Evaluation of Antigens for Development of a Serological Test for Human African Trypanosomiasis.
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Proteasome inhibition for treatment of leishmaniasis, Chagas disease and sleeping sickness.
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Reduction of Tubulin Expression in Angomonas deanei by RNAi Modifies the Ultrastructure of the Trypanosomatid Protozoan and Impairs Division of Its Endosymbiotic Bacterium.
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Cysteine Peptidase B Regulates Leishmania mexicana Virulence through the Modulation of GP63 Expression.
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Conditional gene deletion with DiCre demonstrates an essential role for CRK3 in Leishmania mexicana cell cycle regulation.
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PNT1 Is a C11 Cysteine Peptidase Essential for Replication of the Trypanosome Kinetoplast.
10.1074/jbc.M116.714972
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition).
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Tracking autophagy during proliferation and differentiation of Trypanosoma brucei.
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Leishmaniaflagellum attachment zone is critical for flagellar pocket shape, development in the sand fly, and pathogenicity in the host
10.1073/pnas.1812462116
Tissue-specific transcriptomic changes associated with AmBisome® treatment of BALB/c mice with experimental visceral leishmaniasis
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New Drugs for Human African Trypanosomiasis: A Twenty First Century Success Story
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Anti-Trypanosomal Proteasome Inhibitors Cure Hemolymphatic and Meningoencephalic Murine Infection Models of African Trypanosomiasis
10.3390/tropicalmed5010028
Essential roles for deubiquitination in Leishmania life cycle progression
10.1101/2020.03.05.978528
Role for the flagellum attachment zone in the resolution of cell membrane morphogenesis during Leishmania cell division
10.1101/2020.03.26.009928
Essential roles for deubiquitination in Leishmania life cycle progression
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Leishmania differentiation requires ubiquitin conjugation mediated by a UBC2-UEV1 E2 complex
10.1101/2020.07.09.195024
Role for the flagellum attachment zone in Leishmania anterior cell tip morphogenesis
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Leishmania differentiation requires ubiquitin conjugation mediated by a UBC2-UEV1 E2 complex
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Chromosomal assembly of the nuclear genome of the endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei
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Multiple targets of balancing selection in Leishmania donovani complex parasites
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Targeting the trypanosome kinetochore with CLK1 protein kinase inhibitors.
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Divergent Cytochrome c Maturation System in Kinetoplastid Protists
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17-AAG-Induced Activation of the Autophagic Pathway in Leishmania Is Associated with Parasite Death
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A CLK1-KKT2 Signaling Pathway Regulating Kinetochore Assembly in Trypanosoma brucei
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Protein kinase signalling at the Leishmania kinetochore captured by XL-BioID
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Widespread roles of Trypanosoma brucei ATR in nuclear genome function and transmission are linked to R-loops
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Karen McLuskey
McLuskey Karen
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PNT1 Is a C11 Cysteine Peptidase Essential for Replication of the Trypanosome Kinetoplast
10.1074/jbc.M116.714972
Crystal Structure and Activity Studies of the C11 Cysteine Peptidase from Parabacteroides merdae in the Human Gut Microbiome
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Crystal structures of all-alpha type membrane proteins.
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Discovery of potent pteridine reductase inhibitors to guide antiparasite drug development.
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Crystallization and preliminary x-ray crystallographic analysis of the B800-820 light-harvesting complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 7050.
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Comparative structural analysis of the caspase family with other clan CD cysteine peptidases.
10.1042/bj20141324
Purification, characterization, and crystallization of Trypanosoma metacaspases.
10.1007/978-1-4939-0357-3_13
Substrate specificity and the effect of calcium on Trypanosoma brucei metacaspase 2.
10.1111/febs.12248
Crystal structure of a Trypanosoma brucei metacaspase.
10.1073/pnas.1200885109
Oligopeptidase B deficient mutants of Leishmania major.
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The crystal structure of the periplasmic domain of the type II secretion system protein EpsM from Vibrio cholerae: the simplest version of the ferredoxin fold.
10.1016/j.jmb.2004.01.064
Crystal structure of Leishmania major oligopeptidase B gives insight into the enzymatic properties of a trypanosomatid virulence factor.
10.1074/jbc.m110.156679
Initiating a crystallographic analysis of recombinant (S)-2-hydroxypropylphosphonic acid epoxidase from Streptomyces wedmorensis.
10.1107/s1744309105012376
Insight into the role of Escherichia coli MobB in molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis based on the high resolution crystal structure.
10.1074/jbc.m301485200
Structure and reactivity of hydroxypropylphosphonic acid epoxidase in fosfomycin biosynthesis by a cation- and flavin-dependent mechanism.
10.1073/pnas.0504314102
A protocol for high throughput methods for the expression and purification of inner membrane proteins.
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High-throughput identification of purification conditions leads to preliminary crystallization conditions for three inner membrane proteins.
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High-throughput methods for the detection of protein overexpression using fluorescence markers.
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Structure and reactivity of Trypanosoma brucei pteridine reductase: inhibition by the archetypal antifolate methotrexate.
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How purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest solar energy
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Structural factors which control the position of the Qy absorption band of bacteriochlorophyll a in purple bacterial antenna complexes
10.1023/a:1020995224156
Inhibition ofLeishmania majorpteridine reductase by 2,4,6-triaminoquinazoline: structure of the NADPH ternary complex
10.1107/s0907444904018955
Ranking Metabolite Sets by Their Activity Levels
10.3390/metabo11020103
The crystallographic structure of the B800-820 LH3 light-harvesting complex from the purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 7050.
10.1021/bi010309a
