L-Proline uptake in Crithidia deanei is influenced by its endosymbiont bacterium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 283, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-22

  Galvez Rojas, Robert Leonardo ^a   Frossard, Mariana Lins ^b   Machado Motta, Maria Cristina ^b   Silber, Ariel Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amino acid metabolism; Crithidia deanei; Endosymbiont; Proline uptake

Indexed keywords

PROLINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DENSITY; CELL METABOLISM; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA DEANEI; ENDOSYMBIONT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMYCIN A; BACTERIA; CRITHIDIA; CULTURE MEDIA; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MONENSIN; POTASSIUM; PROLINE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROTENONE; SODIUM; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; VALINOMYCIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRITHIDIA DEANEI; PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 42649105125     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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