Protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase from Plasmodium falciparum is anaerobic and is localized to the mitochondrion

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-52

  Nagaraj, Viswanathan Arun ^a,b   Arumugam, Rajavel ^a,c   Prasad, Dasari ^a,d   Rangarajan, Pundi N ^a   Padmanaban, Govindarajan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaerobic; Electron transport chain; Heme; Plasmodium falciparum; Protoporphyrinogen oxidase

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; CITRININ; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; PYRIMIDINE;

APICOPLAST; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOSOL; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEME SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTIMYCIN A; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; ATOVAQUONE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77955842415     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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