Leishmania infantum expresses a mitochondrial nuclease homologous to EndoG that migrates to the nucleus in response to an apoptotic stimulus

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-38

  Rico, Eva ^a   Alzate, Juan Fernando ^b   Arias, Andrés Augusto ^a   Moreno, David ^a   Clos, Joachim ^c   Gago, Federico ^a   Moreno, Inmaculada ^d   Domínguez, Mercedes ^d   Jiménez Ruiz, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; EndoG; Endonuclease; Leishmania; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

EDELFOSINE; ENDONUCLEASE G; NUCLEASE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUKARYOTA; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; METAZOA;

EID: 56549114782     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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