BMC Genomics BioMed Central Research article Open Access The TriTryp Phosphatome: analysis of the protein phosphatase catalytic domains Rachel Brenchley1,2, Humera Tariq1, Helen McElhinney3, Balázs Szö?r3, Julie Huxley-Jones4, Robert Stevens2, Keith Matthews3 and Lydia Tabernero*1 Address: 1Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith, University of Manchester, M13 9PT, UK, 2Computer Science, University of Manchester, M13 9PT, UK, 3Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, UK and 4GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Essex, CM19 5AW, UK Email: Rachel Brenchley ?
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[email protected] * Corresponding author Published: 26 November 2007 Received: 21 August 2007 Accepted: 26 November 2007 BMC Genomics 2007, 8:434 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-434 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/434 © 2007 Brenchley et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The genomes of the three parasitic protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi, Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania major are the main subject of this study. These parasites are responsible for devastating human diseases known as Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and cutaneous Leishmaniasis, respectively, that affect millions of people in the developing world.