Mitochondrial evolution and functions in malaria parasites

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2009, Pages 249-267

  Vaidya, Akhil B ^a   Mather, Michael W ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolates; ATP synthase; Dinoflagellates; Mitochondrial electron transport chain; Plasmodium; Tricarboxylic acid cycle

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; GLUCOSE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; PYRIMIDINE;

CILIATE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLADISTICS; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG TARGETING; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HUMAN; METABOLITE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIMIDINE SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMODIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ALVEOLATA; CILIOPHORA; DINOPHYCEAE; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA);

EID: 70349536103     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.091208.073424     Document Type: Review

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