The pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase enzyme is located in the plasma membrane and in a cytoplasmic structure in Entamoeba

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Rodríguez, Mario Alberto ^a,b   García Pérez, Rosa María ^a   Mendoza, Leobardo ^a,b   Sánchez, Tomás ^a,b   Guillen, Nancy ^c   Orozco, Esther ^a,b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Entabmoeba moshkovskii; Entamoeba histolytica; Entamoeba invadens; Membrane bound enzyme; Pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase

Indexed keywords

PYRUVATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0344431244     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1998.0202     Document Type: Article

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