A mitochondrial protein affects cell morphology, mitochondrial segregation and virulence in Leishmania

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1499-1514

  Uboldi, Alessandro D ^a   Lueder, Franziska B ^b,c   Walsh, Peter ^b,c   Spurck, Timothy ^b   McFadden, Geoffrey I ^b   Curtis, Joan ^a   Likic, Vladimir A ^c   Perugini, Matthew A ^b,c   Barson, Mary ^a   Lithgow, Trevor ^b,c   Handman, Emanuela ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell division; Leishmania; Mitochondria; Trypanosoma; Yeast

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DISEASE CONTROL; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; PARASITIC DISEASE; PROTEIN; VIRULENCE; YEAST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENOME; KINETOPLAST; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PARASITOSIS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; GENE DELETION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MARKOV CHAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRULENCE;

KINETOPLASTIDA; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 33751003525     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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