Competition and protease sensitivity assays provide evidence for the existence of a hydrogenosomal protein import machinery in Trichomonas vaginalis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-20

  Plümper, Evelyn ^a   Bradley, Peter J ^a   Johnson, Patricia J ^a  

^a Dept of Microbiology and Immunology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amitochondriate protist; Evolution; Hydrogenosome; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HYDROGENASE; PROTEINASE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL ORGANELLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FERREDOXINS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; ORGANELLES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRYPSIN;

EID: 0343920067     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00196-6     Document Type: Article

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