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Trypanothione overproduction and resistance to antimonials and arsenicals in Leishmania.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Sept 1996
Mukhopadhyay R, Dey S, Xu N, Gage D, Lightbody J, Ouellette M, Rosen B P
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Leishmania resistant to arsenicals and antimonials extrude arsenite. Previous results of arsenite uptake into plasma membrane-enriched vesicles suggested that the transported species is a thiol adduct of arsenite. In this paper, we demonstrate that promastigotes of arsenite-resistant Leishmania t...
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