The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum has only one pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, which is located in the apicoplast

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-53

  Foth, Bernardo J ^a,c   Stimmler, Luciana M ^a   Handman, Emanuela ^b   Crabb, Brendan S ^b   Hodder, Anthony N ^b   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ISOENZYME; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENETIC CODE; MALARIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYL COENZYME A; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ERYTHROCYTES; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; PYRUVIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXOPLASMA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 12344312032     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04407.x     Document Type: Article

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