Thioredoxin and glutathione systems differ in parasitic and free-living platyhelminths

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Otero, Lucía ^a   Bonilla, Mariana ^a   Protasio, Anna V ^b   Fernández, Cecilia ^a   Gladyshev, Vadim N ^c   Salinas, Gustavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SELENIUM; THIOREDOXIN; THIOREDOXIN GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; CESTODE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARASITE; PLATYHELMINTH; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TREMATODE; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION;

CESTODA; MAMMALIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; TREMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

ANIMALS; GLUTATHIONE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; THIOREDOXINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77950663440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-237     Document Type: Article

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