Incorporation of iron into Tritrichomonas foetus cell compartments reveals ferredoxin as a major iron-binding protein in hydrogenosomes

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1911-1921

  Suchan, Pavel ^a   Vyoral, Daniel ^b   Petrák, Jiří ^b   Šut'ák, Robert ^a   Rasoloson, Dominique ^c   Nohýnková, Eva ^a   Doležal, Pavel ^a   Tachezy, Jan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENODOXIN; FERREDOXIN; IRON; IRON 59; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITRILOTRIACETIC ACID;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CATTLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTE; FLAGELLATE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; IRON TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEW; STEADY STATE; TRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

BOS TAURUS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRICHOMONADIDA; TRICHOMONAS; TRITRICHOMONAS FOETUS;

EID: 0037810891     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26122-0     Document Type: Review

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