Mitochondrial remnant organelles of Giardia function in iron-sulphur protein maturation

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6963, 2003, Pages 172-176

  Tovar, Jorge ^a   León Avila, Gloria ^a   Sánchez, Lidya B ^b,e   Sutak, Robert ^c   Tachezy, Jan ^c   Van Der Giezen, Mark ^a   Hernández, Manuel ^a   Müller, Miklós ^b   Lucocq, John M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; IRON; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOLOGY; SULFUR;

ENDOMEMBRANES; MITOSOMES; PATHOGENS;

PROTEINS;

ANTIBODY; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN ISCS; PROTEIN ISCU; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOLOGY; PATHOGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GIARDIA; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GIARDIA; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS;

DIPLOMONADIDA; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS;

EID: 0344633597     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01945     Document Type: Article

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