A new function of Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial topoisomerase II is to maintain kinetoplast DNA network topology

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1465-1476

  Lindsay, Megan E ^a   Gluenz, Eva ^b   Gull, Keith ^b   Englund, Paul T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); KINETOPLAST DNA; MINICIRCLE DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, KINETOPLAST; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 56749154540     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06493.x     Document Type: Article

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