Free-living nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans possess in their mitochondria an additional rhodoquinone, an essential component of the eukaryotic fumarate reductase system

Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 284-289

  Takamiya, Shinzaburo ^a   Matsui, Toshihiro ^b   Taka, Hikari ^a   Murayama, Kimie ^a   Matsuda, Motoo ^b   Aoki, Takashi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Fumarate reductase; Respiratory chain; Rhodoquinone

Indexed keywords

FUMARATE REDUCTASE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; MITOCHONDRION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

EID: 0033571172     PISSN: 00039861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1465     Document Type: Article

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