Compartmentation prevents a lethal turbo-explosion of glycolysis in trypanosomes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17718-17723

  Haanstra, Jurgen R ^a,f   Van Tuijl, Arjen ^a   Kessler, Peter ^b,e   Reijnders, Willem ^a   Michels, Paul A M ^c   Westerhoff, Hans V ^a,d   Parsons, Marilyn ^b,e   Bakker, Barbara M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Glycosome; PEX14; Regulation of glycolysis; Systems biology; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLYCOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRYPANOSOMA;

ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROL KINASE; GLYCOLYSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBODIES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA INTERFERENCE; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 56649116028     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806664105     Document Type: Article

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