Giardia lamblia encodes a functional flavohemoglobin

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 399, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 347-351

  Rafferty, Steven ^a   Luu, Betty ^a   March, Raymond E ^a   Yee, Janet ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flavohemoglobin; Giardia; Heme; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVOHEMOGLOBIN; HEME; HEMOPROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLAVIN-ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; GENETIC CODE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEME; HEMEPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MAMMALIA; PROTISTA;

EID: 77956170478     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.07.073     Document Type: Article

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