The single mitochondrial porin of Trypanosoma brucei is the main metabolite transporter in the outer mitochondrial membrane

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 671-680

  Pusnik, Mascha ^a   Charrière, Fabien ^a   Mäser, Pascal ^a   Waller, Ross F ^b   Dagley, Michael J ^c   Lithgow, Trevor ^c   Schneider, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial porin; Mitochondrial protein import; Mitochondrial tRNA import; Tom40; Trypanosoma brucei; VDAC

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 60149110944     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn288     Document Type: Article

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