Malic enzymes of Trichomonas vaginalis: Two enzyme families, two distinct origins

Gene

Volumn 329, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 81-92

  Doležal, Pavel ^a   Vaňáčová, Štěpánka ^a,b   Tachezy, Jan ^a   Hrdý, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Hydrogenosome; L malate:NAD+ (P+) oxidoreductase (decarboxylating) (EC 1.1.1.38 40); Malic enzyme; NAD+; NADP+; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; Parabasala

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING); MICROBIAL ENZYME; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTOZOON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOSOL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ISOENZYMES; KINETICS; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

ARCHEZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 1642390114     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2003.12.022     Document Type: Article

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