Mitochondrial translation is essential in bloodstream forms of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 757-769

  Cristodero, Marina ^a   Seebeck, Thomas ^a   Schneider, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSLATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, AFRICAN;

PROTOZOA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TRYPANOSOMA EVANSI; TRYPANOSOMATIDAE;

EID: 77958598883     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07368.x     Document Type: Article

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