Metabolic pathways in the apicoplast of apicomplexa

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 281, Issue C, 2010, Pages 161-228

  Seeber, Frank ^a,b   Soldati Favre, Dominique ^c  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Apicoplast; Metabolism; Plasmodium; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; DIHYDROXYACETONE PHOSPHATE; FATTY ACID; HEME; HEME OXYGENASE; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; ISOPRENOID; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; THIOCTIC ACID; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TERPENE;

APICOMPLEXA; APICOPLAST; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOOK; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL METABOLISM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA BASE; GENE LOCUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

APICOMPLEXA; PLASMODIUM (APICOMPLEXA); TOXOPLASMA;

ABSCISIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APICOMPLEXA; EVOLUTION; FATTY ACIDS; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HEME; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; ORGANELLES; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; PROTEOME; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TERPENES; THIOCTIC ACID;

EID: 77955907263     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(10)81005-6     Document Type: Article

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