The unusual architecture and predicted function of the mitochondrion organelle in Cryptosporidium parvum and hominis species: The strong paradigm of the structure-function relationship

Parassitologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-225

  Putignani, Lorenza ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Architecture function relationship; Chimera organelle; Cryptosporidium spp. Mitochondrion; Predictive functional pathways

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; CHAPERONIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOPHYTA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXOPLASMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CHAPERONINS; CRYPTOPHYTA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EIMERIA TENELLA; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GUILLARDIA THETA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 31944440402     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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