Functions and cellular localization of cysteine desulfurase and selenocysteine lyase in Trypanosoma brucei

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 383-393

  Poliak, Pavel ^a   Van Hoewyk, Douglas ^b   Oborník, Miroslav ^a   Zíková, Alena ^a,c   Stuart, Kenneth D ^c   Tachezy, Jan ^d   Pilon, Marinus ^e   Lukeš, Julius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b Wall College of Business   (United States)

^c SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe S cluster; Mitochondrion; RNAi; Selenoprotein; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; ENZYME; LYASE; SELENOCYSTEINE LYASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSOL; DOWN REGULATION; EUKARYOTE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CYTOSOL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LYASES; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EUKARYOTA; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 74549207533     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07489.x     Document Type: Article

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