Assembling Fe/S-clusters and modifying tRNAs: Ancient co-factors meet ancient adaptors

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 235-238

  Alfonzo, Juan D ^a   Lukeš, Julius ^b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; CELL ENERGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANTICODON; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CARBON-SULFUR LYASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CODON; CYTOPLASM; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA, TRANSFER; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 79956367445     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2011.02.003     Document Type: Review

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