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An unusually small gene encoding a putative mucin-like glycoprotein in Trypanosoma cruzi
M B Reyes1, G D Pollevick, A C Frasch
1Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundación Campomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gene
|March 11, 1994
Abstract:
The gene encoding a putative core protein of a mucin-like glycoprotein was identified in Trypanosoma cruzi. It contains five repeats of eleven amino acids each, eight of which are Thr and two of which are Pro residues. These Thr-Pro-rich repeats resemble the ones in the human MUC2 gene encoding mucin.