Trypanosoma brucei: Differential requirement of membrane potential for import of proteins into mitochondria in two developmental stages

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 420-433

  Williams, Shuntae ^a   Saha, Lipi ^a   Singha, Ujjal K ^a   Chaudhuri, Minu ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloodstream form; Carbonyl cyanide m chlorophenyl hydrazone; CCCP; COIV; Cytochrome oxidase subunit IV; Dimethyl sulfoxide; DMSO; Membrane potential; Mitochondrial protein import; NADH dehydrogenase K; Ndh K; Prediction of protein sorting signals and localization sites in amino acid sequences; Procyclic form; PSORT; TAO; Trypanosoma brucei; Trypanosome alternative oxidase

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OLIGOMYCIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRYPANOSOME ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 38649089796     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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