The glycosomal ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase of Trypanosoma brucei must have evolved from an ancestral pyrophosphate-dependent enzyme

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 698-704

  Michels, Paul A M ^a,c   Chevalier, Nathalie ^a   Opperdoes, Fred R ^a   Rider, Mark H ^a   Rigden, Daniel J ^b  

^a International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CP TROP 74/39 ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolution; Glycosomes; Phospho donor; Phosphofructokinase; Tryptanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; GLYCOLYTIC ENZYME; PYROPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GLYCOLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 0031574041     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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