A Functional Tom70 in the human parasite Blastocystis sp.: Implications for the evolution of the mitochondrial import apparatus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 781-791

  Tsaousis, Anastasios D ^a   Gaston, Daniel ^a   Stechmann, Alexandra ^a   Walker, Peter B ^a   Lithgow, Trevor ^b   Roger, Andrew J ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; mitochondrial protein import; phylogeny; Tom70; translocase of the outer membrane; yeast complementations

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSLOCASE OF OUTER MEMBRANE 70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BLASTOCYSTIS; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME; HAPTOPHYTA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA EXTRACTION; STRAMENOPILE; WESTERN BLOTTING; YEAST CELL;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BLASTOCYSTIS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS SP.; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 78650474612     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq252     Document Type: Article

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