Proteobacteria-like ferrochelatase in the malaria parasite

Current Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 292-300

  Sato, Shigeharu ^a   Wilson, R J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ferrochelatase; Heme biosynthesis; aminolevulinic acid dehydratase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FERROCHELATASE; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PORPHOBILINOGEN SYNTHASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEME SYNTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; ORTHOLOGY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM YOELII; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037295433     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0360-5     Document Type: Review

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