The diversity and evolution of thioredoxin reductase: New perspectives

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 302-308

  Hirt, Robert P ^a   Müller, Sylke ^b   Martin Embley, T ^a   Coombs, Graham H ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

APICOMPLEXA; CATALYSIS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; EUKARYOTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE (NADPH);

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036629836     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4922(02)02293-6     Document Type: Review

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