Pyruvate-sensitive AOX exists as a non-covalently associated dimer in the homeothermic spadix of the skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus renifolius

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 30, 2007, Pages 5852-5858

  Onda, Yoshihiko ^a   Kato, Yoshiaki ^a   Abe, Yukie ^a   Ito, Takanori ^a   Ito Inaba, Yasuko ^a   Morohashi, Miyuki ^a,b   Ito, Yuka ^a   Ichikawa, Megumi ^a   Matsukawa, Kazushige ^a   Otsuka, Minoru ^a   Koiwa, Hiroyuki ^b   Ito, Kikukatsu ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tohoku Chemical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative oxidase; Mitochondria; Pyruvate; Respiration; Skunk cabbage; Thermogenic plants

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; DIAMIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; PROTEIN AOX; PYRUVIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CABBAGE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYMPLOCARPUS RENIFOLIUS; THERMOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARACEAE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CELL RESPIRATION; DIAMIDE; DIMERIZATION; DITHIOTHREITOL; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; KETOGLUTARIC ACIDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAD; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBMITOCHONDRIAL PARTICLES; TEMPERATURE;

SYMPLOCARPUS FOETIDUS;

EID: 37049032164     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.11.061     Document Type: Article

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