The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum possesses two distinct dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenases

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-38

  McMillan, Paul J ^a   Stimmler, Luciana M ^b   Foth, Bernardo J ^b,c   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^b   Müller, Sylke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 OXOACID DEHYDROGENASE; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALARIA; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3-METHYL-2-OXOBUTANOATE DEHYDROGENASE (LIPOAMIDE); ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 12344298301     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04398.x     Document Type: Article

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