The direct route: a simplified pathway for protein import into the mitochondrion of trypanosomes

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 12-18

  Schneider, André ^a   Bursać, Dejan ^b,c   Lithgow, Trevor ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CYTOSOL; EUKARYOTE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); PROTISTA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 37849035275     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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