Import of a constitutively expressed protein into mitochondria from procyclic and bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 249-260

  Bertrand, Karen I ^a   Hajduk, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloodstream; Constitutively expressed protein; Mitochondria; Procyclic; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MITOCHONDRIA; NADP TRANSHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0034005464     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00218-2     Document Type: Article

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